All 15 Uses
earnest
in
A Death in the Family
(Auto-generated)
- You look very nice, she said, studying him earnestly, as if he were her son.†
Chpt 2 *earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- She wondered why she liked him so little (for to say that she actually disliked him, she earnestly assured herself, would be putting it falsely).†
Chpt 4
- Shame on you, she said to herself, and thought earnestly of all that she knew was good about him.†
Chpt 4
- At the door, a few minutes later, when she leaned to kiss him good-bye and saw his face, she mistook the cause of it and said, more gently but very earnestly: "Rufus, I can see you're sorry, but you mustn't be mean to Catherine.†
Chpt 5
- He looked earnestly up at her.†
Chpt 7
- And as they continued, and Hannah heard more and more clearly than her own the young, warm, earnest, faithful, heartsick voice, her moment of terrifying unbelief became a remembrance, a temptation successfully resisted through God's grace.†
Chpt 8earnest = sincere or serious
- Hannah put a quick hand to her shoulder; Andrew dropped to his knees before her; took her hands and said, most earnestly, "Mary, in God's name be thankful he didn't!†
Chpt 10earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- Then Hannah moved him aside and stooped before Mary, taking her wrists and talking earnestly into her streaming hands: "Mary, listen to me.†
Chpt 11
- And after thinking a moment he would say, looking cautiously and earnestly, at the boy who had forgotten, "Do you promise you really honestly forgot?†
Chpt 13
- And looking back just as earnestly the boy said, "Cross my heart and body, and did so.†
Chpt 13
- Just like Catherine, his mother whispered, laughing, and they all looked at Catherine, who was staring out at the mountains and looking very heavy and earnest; and they laughed and Catherine looked at them and began to realize they were laughing at her, and that made her face get red and that made them laugh some more, and even Rufus joined in, and they only stopped when Catherine began to stick out her lower lip and her mother said, "Mercy, child, you've got to learn to take a joke.†
Chpt 13earnest = sincere or serious
- Catherine peered at her earnestly as if through a thick fog.†
Chpt 14earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- she asked earnestly.†
Chpt 15
- Hannah, who knew the joking phrase too, was startled, but quickly realized that the child meant it in earnest.†
Chpt 15in earnest = serious; or in a serious manner
- The priest's jaw was hard, his face was earnest, his eyes were tightly shut.†
Chpt 18earnest = sincere or serious
Definitions:
-
(1)
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Earnest can also be used as a name (variant spelling of Ernest), or to signify the seriousness of a pledge made (as when earnest money is included with an offer to purchase a home).