EARNEST in HOWARDS END - verbalworkout.com

8 uses

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Definition

characterized by sincere belief

or:

intensely or excessively serious

The earnest girl brought forward a scheme of "personal supervision and mutual help," the effect of which was to alter poor people until they became exactly like people who were not so poor.
Chapter 15 (28% in)

earnest = excessively serious

The more earnest members of his family never forgave him, and knew that his children, though scarcely English of the dreadful sort, would never be German to the back-bone.
Chapter 4 (73% in)
Few women had tried more earnestly to pierce the accretions in which body and soul are enwrapped.
Chapter 12 (21% in)
"But that would be pauperising them," said an earnest girl, who liked the Schlegels, but thought them a little unspiritual at times.
Chapter 15 (15% in)
She leant back while the more earnest members of the club began to misconstrue her.
Chapter 15 (21% in)
Helen and Margaret walked with the earnest girl as far as Battersea Bridge Station, arguing copiously all the way.
Chapter 15 (32% in)
The earnest girl's train rumbled away over the bridge, "I say, Helen—"
Chapter 15 (36% in)
But Margaret was thinking how difficult it was to be earnest about furniture on such a day, and the niece was thinking about hats.
Chapter 33 (37% in)

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earnest used in Howards End