All 9 Uses of
earnest
in
Kidnapped
- "Na, na; na, na," he said, very earnestly.†
Chpt 3
- But this time, mind, they'll be in earnest."†
Chpt 10
- By the concerned look of his face, and, above all, by the sharp tones in which he spoke of his brig, it was plain to both of us he was in deadly earnest; and so Alan and I, with no great fear of treachery, stepped on deck.†
Chpt 13
- But at last he was so earnest with me that I thought it the more mannerly part to let him have his way, and so left him poorer than myself.†
Chpt 16
- "Now," said he, "it's earnest.†
Chpt 17
- He spoke with a pleading earnestness, taking Alan by the breast of the coat.†
Chpt 19
- "Ye havenae surely thought of that?" said they, with such innocent earnestness, that my hands dropped at my side and I despaired of argument.†
Chpt 19
- I looked to see if he were jesting; but no, the little man was in dead earnest;
Chpt 22 *earnest = sincerity
- There was no end to his questions; he put them as earnestly as a child; and at some of the answers, laughed out of all bounds of reason, and would break out again laughing at the mere memory, hours after the barber was gone.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined