All 14 Uses of
earnest
in
Man And Superman
- Between them hang an engraved portrait of Richard Cobden; enlarged photographs of Martineau, Huxley, and George Eliot; autotypes of allegories by Mr G.F. Watts (for Roebuck believed in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them), and an impression of Dupont's engraving of Delaroche's Beaux Artes hemicycle, representing the great men of all ages.†
Chpt 1
- But he was in earnest.†
Chpt 1
- A sensitive, susceptible, exaggerative, earnest man: a megalomaniac, who would be lost without a sense of humor.†
Chpt 1
- [earnestly] Oh please call me Ricky-ticky—tavy, "Mr Robinson" would hurt me cruelly.†
Chpt 1
- It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.†
Chpt 1
- The most solemn earnest, Ann.†
Chpt 1
- [earnestly] Oh, how wrong you are!†
Chpt 1
- [earnestly] Take care, Jack.†
Chpt 1
- [earnestly] But there's a great truth at the bottom of what he says.†
Chpt 2
- I want you to tell her sincerely and earnestly what you think about me.
Chpt 2 *earnestly = sincerely and seriously
- [with simple earnestness] Yes, I will come, Jack, since you wish it.†
Chpt 2
- [in fierce earnest] Are you playing the fool, or do you mean it?†
Chpt 2
- Well, the means will be found: the brain will not fail when the will is in earnest.†
Chpt 3
- The sober decency, earnestness and authority of their declaration of the real purpose of marriage will be honored and accepted, whilst their romantic vowings and pledgings and until-death-do-us-partings and the like will be expunged as unbearable frivolities.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined