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Meanings of earnest in English

Earnest.

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        Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions.

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              Not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal.

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                    Usage of earnest in English
                    1
                    Nervous intensity may not so much mar the effect of earnest debate.
                    Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
                    2
                    Therefore, before the process begins, an earnest money agreement must be made.
                    Reuters
                    3
                    Therefore, at Smith's earnest request, I made an exception in your case.
                    Immortality Inc.
                    4
                    Moreover, I doubt whether they are really in earnest about this war.
                    The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
                    5
                    Yet the actual Convention consisted of grave men in an earnest mood.
                    Abraham Lincoln
                    6
                    No trifling in the matter at all; I am in sober earnest.
                    Off-Hand Sketches, a Little Dashed with Humor
                    7
                    Actually I haven't been more in earnest for a good many days.
                    White Hunter, Black Heart
                    8
                    Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate.
                    Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources
                    9
                    I hope that I shall shortly have your earnest cooperation, as well.
                    The lies of locke lamora
                    10
                    The business of running in to the quayside was beginning in earnest.
                    The Man in the Twilight
                    11
                    The war had now begun in earnest; and our advance was unintermitted.
                    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September...
                    12
                    After this ceremony had been concluded, there was much earnest debate in.
                    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
                    13
                    By 1846 instruction in needlework had been begun in earnest in England.
                    The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
                    14
                    He searched the house in earnest for the marks of recent history.
                    The lost books of the odyssey
                    15
                    He is unassuming in manner, blithe in company, earnest in the pulpit.
                    Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
                    16
                    In the pulpit he drives forward in the same earnest, matter-of-fact style.
                    Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
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                    Earnest through the time
                    Earnest across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    Ireland
                    Less common
                    United States of America
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