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Meanings of greatest earnestness in English

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Usage of greatest earnestness in English
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Nay, I defend all his good acts with the greatest earnestness.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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Every preliminary arrangement was hurried on with the greatest earnestness.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
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Heraclitus comes before us as a man who took life with the greatest earnestness.
Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity
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Then the President said, with the greatest earnestness: I am in better health-indeed ,quitewell.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
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I am writing with the greatest earnestness about you to the physician, to Curius, and to Lyso.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If we practise the latter with the greatest earnestness, are stricter about the rehearsals, in fact, it is not wonderful.
The Green Carnation
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I said these words with the greatest earnestness that I could lay upon them, and I repeat them in print here with equal earnestness.
American Notes
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I begged with the greatest earnestness for a carriage at any price, to pass the feast of Easter at the Marchioness of Prunai's house.
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
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She walked up to me gracefully, kissed my hand, besought me with the greatest earnestness imaginable to marry her, and take her along with me.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete
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She came up to me presently, kissed my hand, prayed me, with the greatest earnestness imaginable, to marry her, and take her along with me.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
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"Nobody, nobody is good enough," I began with the greatest earnestness.
Lord Jim
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"Mucio comes begging to me," said Parma, "with the very greatest earnestness, and utters nothing but lamentations and cries of misery.
History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
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