All 6 Uses of
earnest
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road.†
Chpt 1earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- He was in dreadful earnest and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever happened I would always be true to him.†
Chpt 3 *earnest = sincere or serious
- Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it.†
Chpt 10earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- A prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very earnestly at the ladies who entered.†
Chpt 12
- "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly.†
Chpt 12
- This man, however, was leaning against the railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up.†
Chpt 12
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).