All 7 Uses of
earnest
in
O Pioneers!
- Her body was in an attitude of perfect repose, such as it was apt to take when she was thinking earnestly.†
Chpt 1.4
- Alexandra asked Signa whether she thought Nelse was in earnest,
Chpt 2.2 *in earnest = serious
- Alexandra made an impatient gesture, but the old man put out his hand and went on earnestly:— "Listen, mistress, it is right that you should take these things into account.†
Chpt 2.2
- He was so much in earnest that Carl scarcely knew how to answer him.†
Chpt 2.3
- "Why do you dread things like that, Carl?" she asked earnestly.†
Chpt 2.4
- "Alexandra," he said earnestly, "if I git out-a here, I not trouble dis country no more.†
Chpt 5.2
- "It happens like that in the world sometimes, Alexandra," he added earnestly.†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
-
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined