All 6 Uses of
earnest
in
My Antonia
- ...and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Antonia!"
Book 1 *earnestness = seriousness
- It will be all right with mama after you pass your college examinations and she sees you're in earnest.'†
Book 2
- XIV THE DAY AFTER COMMENCEMENT I moved my books and desk upstairs, to an empty room where I should be undisturbed, and I fell to studying in earnest.†
Book 2
- 'Jim,' she said earnestly, 'if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little town; and along the river to the next town, where my grandmother lived.†
Book 2
- You should either quit school and go to work, or change your college and begin again in earnest.†
Book 3
- 'I'll come back,' I said earnestly, through the soft, intrusive darkness.†
Book 4
Definition:
-
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined