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Meanings of very earnest in English
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Usage of very earnest in English
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She said that he was very earnest, and had a beautiful nature.
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Sincerely, Theresa Dear Theresa, Thanks for your very earnest and sincere note.
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The gentleman who accompanied me was a very earnest believer in coercion.
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Hearing them very earnest, I took the liberty also to go in.
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Mississippi was very earnest for the Rebellion when Kentucky was the battle-ground.
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But in my young days we were very earnest at this work.
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A very earnest and touching address was next pronounced by the archbishop.
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He went on talking in his self-effacing, deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
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She was very earnest to buy it at a very under rate.
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Bessie was very earnest to know all there was to be known.
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The children were evidently giving very earnest heed to their father's words.
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I then visited Mrs Arnett, a very earnest churchwoman, but permanently bedridden.
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She got up, and, facing him, she made a very earnest appeal.
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Her eyes were very earnest and they looked his face over carefully.
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He's very earnest, and I hope everyone strives to be earnest.
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Sir Wyndham was very earnest in his counsel, and made this suggestion sincerely.
This collocation consists of:
Very earnest through the time
Very earnest across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common