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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "soothe"
}
],
"categories": [
"English obsolete forms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience",
"text": "Hereupon it is, that these sportulary preachers are fain to sooth up their many masters […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1811, Andrew Scott, “Answer to Mr. J. M.’s Epistle”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] Alexander Leadbetter, for the author; and sold by W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 123",
"text": "“Wi’ hat in hand,” sweet lass, quo I, / “Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor’d whistle I wad try, / An’ gie’t a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An’ bonny Tweed.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of soothe."
],
"links": [
[
"soothe",
"soothe#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "sooth"
}
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