All 15 Uses of
earnest
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Up to this moment it could not positively have been asserted that the man, in spite of his tantalizing declaration, was really in earnest.
Chpt 1 *in earnest = serious
- On her arrival below the landlady, who was as kind as she was fat and lazy, saw that Elizabeth-Jane was rather tired, though in her earnestness to be useful she was waiving her own needs altogether.†
Chpt 7earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- "But, no!" said Donald Farfrae, gazing round into their faces with earnest concern; "the best of ye hardly honest—not that surely?†
Chpt 8earnest = sincere or serious
- "Oh yes, but I have!" exclaimed the young man; and he at once rendered "O Nannie" with faultless modulations, and another or two of the like sentiment, winding up at their earnest request with "Auld Lang Syne."†
Chpt 8
- She must have appeared interesting in some way—not-withstanding her plain dress—or rather, possibly, in consequence of it, for she was a girl characterized by earnestness and soberness of mien, with which simple drapery accorded well.†
Chpt 8earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- Thus she earnestly pleaded.†
Chpt 8earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- Then Mrs. Henchard acted somewhat inconsistently; it might have been called falsely, but that her manner was emotional and full of the earnestness of one who wishes to do right at great hazard.†
Chpt 14earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- "Ay—and I did sing there—I did—But, Miss Newson"—and Donald's voice musically undulated between two semi-tones as it always did when he became earnest—"it's well you feel a song for a few minutes, and your eyes they get quite tearful; but you finish it, and for all you felt you don't mind it or think of it again for a long while.†
Chpt 14earnest = sincere or serious
- "That I'm sure we won't!" she said earnestly.†
Chpt 17earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- She replied with great earnestness that she would not think of giving that trouble, and on the instant divested herself of her bonnet and cloak in the passage.†
Chpt 22earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- Elizabeth was earnest to listen and sympathize.†
Chpt 24earnest = sincere or serious
- "There is one thing I have not done; and yet it is important," she said earnestly, when she had finished talking about the adventure with the bull.†
Chpt 30earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- The vision of Elizabeth's earnest face in the rimy dawn came back to him several times during the day.†
Chpt 34earnest = sincere or serious
- These passages soon began to uncover the secret which Lucetta had so earnestly hoped to keep buried, though the epistles, being allusive only, did not make it altogether plain.†
Chpt 36earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- Elizabeth now gave earnest heed to his story.†
Chpt 43earnest = sincere or serious
Definition:
characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined