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Meanings of earnest in English
Usage of earnest in English
1
Nervous intensity may not so much mar the effect of earnest debate.
2
Therefore, before the process begins, an earnest money agreement must be made.
3
Therefore, at Smith's earnest request, I made an exception in your case.
4
Moreover, I doubt whether they are really in earnest about this war.
5
Yet the actual Convention consisted of grave men in an earnest mood.
6
No trifling in the matter at all; I am in sober earnest.
7
Actually I haven't been more in earnest for a good many days.
8
Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate.
9
I hope that I shall shortly have your earnest cooperation, as well.
10
The business of running in to the quayside was beginning in earnest.
11
The war had now begun in earnest; and our advance was unintermitted.
12
After this ceremony had been concluded, there was much earnest debate in.
13
By 1846 instruction in needlework had been begun in earnest in England.
14
He searched the house in earnest for the marks of recent history.
15
He is unassuming in manner, blithe in company, earnest in the pulpit.
16
In the pulpit he drives forward in the same earnest, matter-of-fact style.
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