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Meanings of downright earnest in English

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Usage of downright earnest in English
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As a matter of fact I am in serious and downright earnest.
A Prince of Sinners
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Can we wonder that he was in ' downright earnest' in seeking salvation.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Reader, have you ever felt thus 'in downright earnest' for salvation?
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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While the girls went on scolding like that, they began to freeze in downright earnest.
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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Now the battle began in downright earnest.
Messenger No. 48
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Then the one-eyed hostler began to thrust and strike with the bar as if in downright earnest.
The Youth's Companion, Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13...
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It was done in downright earnest.
Man and Wife
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Then work began in downright earnest.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
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Desirous of learning the language, but far more desirous of commending himself to Euphra, Hugh began in downright earnest.
David Elginbrod
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If what Ian said was true, this life was a serious affair, and to be lived in downright earnest!
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3
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When Two-eyes was thus carried away by the handsome knight, her two sisters grudged her good fortune in downright earnest.
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
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As soon as we were settled in the barracks at Nance, my mother commenced her system of persecution in downright earnest.
Valerie
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It didn't seem hardly any time before they were half-way round again, and the struggle was on, in good downright earnest.
Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a...
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He took to cricket in downright earnest, and was soon acknowledged to be the best bat and best bowler in the school.
The Queen's Cup
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At the bottom, Sitgreaves had much good sense, and thus called on, he took up the cudgels of argument in downright earnest.
The Spy
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I am very glad to hear of the success of your reading, and still more glad that you went at it in downright earnest.
Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists
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