What's the difference between sooth and soothsaying?

Sooth


Definition:

  • (superl.) True; faithful; trustworthy.
  • (superl.) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
  • (a.) Truth; reality.
  • (a.) Augury; prognostication.
  • (a.) Blandishment; cajolery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (2) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (3) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
  • (4) Mourinho's gloating will have done little to soothe Tottenham's anger.
  • (5) One peer, Lord Best, back in the House of Lords debate in 2011 , caught the deep importance of how a home should soothe and protect.
  • (6) For the past year, she has given the same talk at up to four "home parties" daily, fuelled by little more than coffee and larynx-soothing Malva tea.
  • (7) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (8) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
  • (9) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (10) But that still puts the UK's deficit, at more than 12% of GDP, in line with that of crisis-hit Greece, and the numbers gave new momentum to the increasingly bitter row about what should come first: soothing the concerns of the bond markets with public sector cutbacks, or making sure the economy has recovered before switching off the life-support.
  • (11) Three precious points appeared to be theirs and they stood not only to crown a fightback that had hardly been trailed, but to soothe the pain of the 6-0 humbling at Chelsea from last Saturday.
  • (12) Cameron’s EU deal: the verdict from our panel | Matthew d’Ancona, Daniel Hannan, Tom Clark and Natalie Nougayrède Read more There was still a long way to go and the deal was far from sealed, Dave soothingly cajoled, but “what we’ve got is what I basically asked for”.
  • (13) It is a bit rich to expect us to state exactly how we’ll whip our troops when Cameron himself still can’t come out and say what he’ll do with his own cabinet.” Behind the scenes, “sources close to Corbyn” could usefully soothe pro-European nerves: “As an internationalist party, our inclination is of course to remain within the European family, but it would be irresponsible to declare our hand now, leaving Cameron to barter away British employment rights.” However Corbyn votes himself, it is perfectly plain that he will not have the authority to whip individual Euro-enthusiast MPs to vote against their consciences, so he may as well concede that at once.
  • (14) The results suggest that, in the presence of variation in feeding practice greater than that which is typical for our society, feeding interval may be a significant factor in early (but not later) crying behavior; furthermore, this effect is independent of and additive to the soothing effect of short response latency.
  • (15) In the three-minute video, ‘From Candles to Computers: Bringing Electricity to China’s Jing Jin village’, she says: “The coal industry is a major force in eliminating fuel poverty in China but, more importantly, it’s a critical driving force for the phenomenal economic growth China has experienced.” The video comes with a soothing soundtrack of traditional Chinese music, and is beautifully shot.
  • (16) Particular facets examined include the "soothing" function of medication, the placebo effect, and medication compliance, as well as countertransference difficulties encountered in administering the medicine.
  • (17) Their encouragement may soothe nervous Republicans but they have conflict of interest issues of their own .
  • (18) She also took the family's pet rabbit to soothe Hardwick, who had severe learning disabilities and a mental age of about four.
  • (19) If the prime minister had hoped to soothe old tensions, however, he failed – at least partially.
  • (20) Being responsible was more helpful to fathers who saw their infant as responding positively to soothing techniques and as smiling and laughing frequently, but less helpful to fathers who perceived their infant as being fearful and distressed by limitations.

Soothsaying


Definition:

  • (n.) A true saying; truth.
  • (n.) The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
  • (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
  • (2) Variations in the strength of recovery in different world regions led advertising industry soothsayer Sir Martin Sorrell to grasp for ever stranger soundbites, with the idea of a "LuVVy"-shaped global recovery his most elaborate effort.
  • (3) Soothsayer or not, he never imagined the pink pound would become legal tender.
  • (4) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
  • (5) Thai authorities confirmed on Monday that a colonel in the military was also being investigated in the same inquiry as the soothsayer, but he had absconded.
  • (6) He thinks we shouldn't get on with cutting waste this year … I don't see him as some economic soothsayer, frankly."
  • (7) The actor and writer Carrie Fisher has many talents but soothsaying appears not to be among them.
  • (8) She says: "The soothsayers and tea-leaves readers and the so-called experts can look at coalitions, but our job is to make sure we are offering a big choice for a majority government."
  • (9) And then when they heard that the crowd had arrived, like a carnival with every malcontent and half-crazed soothsayer following in its wake, Martha went out into the streets to announce her brother's death to my son.
  • (10) Iain Duncan Smith dismissed “another doom-and-gloom scenario” from an organisation “that simply hasn’t got anything right”; his fellow pro-Brexit MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the OBR had made “lunatic assumptions” and that “experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category”.
  • (11) Thai authorities said Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known by his soothsayer name Mor Yong, died of a blood infection on Saturday evening, hours after he was found unconscious in his cell at a Bangkok army barracks.
  • (12) The so-called “evil cult” has been wreaking havoc countrywide, if state media reports are to be believed – distributing leaflets, soothsaying into megaphones, attacking police stations and extorting “donations” from gullible peasants.
  • (13) But just as the soothsayers who cook up future prospects from experience of the recent past had got used to peering back into gloom, reality overtook them again, and all the adjustments are now in the other direction.
  • (14) Google in particular preoccupies advertising's economic soothsayer.
  • (15) On the evidence of the first 100 days, that’s a question beyond the most talented soothsayer, but as the days pass, maybe word will emerge of a plan.
  • (16) Experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category.” This is classic Rees-Mogg.
  • (17) Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist – but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.
  • (18) On stage he looks nothing like the laconic soothsayer of a few hours ago; now he's every bit the magnetic frontman, pulling messianic poses with arms outstretched and head flung back.
  • (19) Turns out the soothsayers were mistaken: the Sun isn't dying, it's expanding.

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