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Definition
characterized by sincere belief
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intensely or excessively serious
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intensely or excessively serious
- You know yourself how earnestly in the last months of last year, I laboured to relieve suffering; you know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself.p. 100.1
- Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.p. 83.4
There are no more uses of "earnest" in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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