All 8 Uses of
earnest
in
Anna Karenina
- She looked at him earnestly, as though wishing to make out the cause of his confusion.†
Part 1 *earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- "Yes, as you see, your tender spouse, as devoted as the first year after marriage, burned with impatience to see you," he said in his deliberate, high-pitched voice, and in that tone which he almost always took with her, a tone of jeering at anyone who should say in earnest what he said.†
Part 1in earnest = serious; or in a serious manner
- And I used to think that, before marriage, life was nothing much, somehow didn't count, but that after marriage, life began in earnest.†
Part 5
- As she came nearer and nearer to the familiar breeding places there was more and more earnestness in Laska's exploration.†
Part 6earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- Darya Alexandrovna was well aware that even porridge for the children's breakfast does not come of itself, and that therefore, where so complicated and magnificent a style of luxury was maintained, someone must give earnest attention to its organization.†
Part 6earnest = sincere or serious
- In attending the elections, too, and taking part in them, he tried now not to judge, not to fall foul of them, but to comprehend as fully as he could the question which was so earnestly and ardently absorbing honest and excellent men whom he respected.†
Part 6earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.†
Part 7earnest = sincere or serious
- Levin ceased thinking, and only, as it were, listened to mysterious voices that seemed talking joyfully and earnestly within him.†
Part 8earnestly = sincerely or seriously
Definitions:
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(1)
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Earnest can also be used as a name (variant spelling of Ernest), or to signify the seriousness of a pledge made (as when earnest money is included with an offer to purchase a home).