All 5 Uses of
earnest
in
Gulliver's Travels
- They conferred earnestly with each other, looking often upon me.†
Chpt 3 *
- After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame, which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said, "Perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations.†
Chpt 3
- The two horses came up close to me, looking with great earnestness upon my face and hands.†
Chpt 4
- In gratitude to the captain, I sometimes sat with him, at his earnest request, and strove to conceal my antipathy against human kind, although it often broke out; which he suffered to pass without observation.†
Chpt 4
- I was conveyed to his own house; and at my earnest request he led me up to the highest room backwards.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined