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Meanings of earnest in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "solemn"
Examples for "solemn"
1
However, Mr Ahern's words merely looked and sounded like a solemn commitment.
2
Benita shuddered; the solemn awfulness of the place and scene oppressed her.
3
There was something solemn in the manner in which he stood upright.
4
Prince Djiddin was wrapped in the veil of a solemn personal seclusion.
5
And the University of Paris in solemn conclave ratified the above judgment.
Usage of earnest in inglês
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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Earnest through the time
Earnest across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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United States of America
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