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I began training in earnest the summer before high school.in earnest = in a serious manner
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I believe her. She seemed earnest.earnest = sincere
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She has a casual, go-with-the-flow personality and doesn't appreciate his earnestness.earnestness = seriousness
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Both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate.in earnest = serious
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I make up a green-bean dish with orange peel and dill, in an earnest effort to be jazzy and inventive. (source)earnest = determined
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I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind… (source)earnest = sincere and determined
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The sheriff looked from his father's earnest, elderly face to Trudy, who nodded absently. (source)earnest = intensely serious
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"You think on it, Winnie Foster," Jesse whispered earnestly. (source)earnestly = sincerely
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I had taken up gardening in earnest now, I was getting some results. (source)in earnest = in a serious manner
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Smugness faded from it, replaced by a dogged earnestness that fooled Judge Taylor not at all: as long as Mr. Ewell was on the stand, the judge kept his eyes on him, as if daring him to make a false move. (source)earnestness = sincerity or seriousnessstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Thus it came to pass that in the Sunday Advocate-Times, under a picture of Dr. Drew at his earnestest, with eyes alert, jaw as granite, and rustic lock flamboyant, appeared an inscription—a wood-pulp tablet conferring twenty-four hours' immortality: The Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew, M.A., pastor of the beautiful Chatham Road Presbyterian Church in lovely Floral Heights, is a wizard soul-winner.† (source)
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Pollard did not begin urging Seabiscuit inearnest until Rosemont was alongside him, just forward enough for Pollard to see him with his left eye, upon turning his head.† (source)inearnest = not sincere or serious
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She, now so unearnest with me through her worked-up countenance, I saw she had been gotten to by her parents and that decisions had been made.† (source)
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His expression was stretched—earnest, desperate. (source)earnest = serious
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Earnestly, he said, "Just wait," and he hurried back around the corner. (source)Earnestly = with seriousness
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I tried to breathe in the Dr. Singh—sanctioned way without making it too obvious, but within a few minutes I was sweating in earnest, (source)in earnest = intensely (a lot)
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This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? (source)earnest = down payment
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And, for an earnest of a greater honor, He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor: In which addition, hail, most worthy thane, For it is thine. (source)earnest = proof of seriousness
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