All 14 Uses
earnest
in
The Rainbow Trail
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- She was a slight, comely little woman, with keen, earnest, dark eyes.†
Chpt 3earnest = sincere or serious
- "Except to Indians, it seems to be a secret so far," replied the trader, earnestly.†
Chpt 5 *earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- He would rather have been a Mormon than an atheist, and apparently they considered him the latter, and were earnest to save his soul.†
Chpt 6earnest = sincere or serious
- "Mary," he said, earnestly, "tell me—have you mother, father, sister, brother?†
Chpt 6earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- Willetts was talking earnestly; Glen Naspa was listening intently.†
Chpt 8
- He realized what he had become and gloried in it, yet there, looking on with grave and earnest eyes, was his old self, the man of reason, of intellect, of culture, who had been a good man despite the failure and shame of his life.†
Chpt 11earnest = sincere or serious
- On the street, however, and the paths and in the doorways of stores were knots of people, talking earnestly.†
Chpt 11earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- Willetts stood in earnest colloquy with a short, squat Indian—the half-breed Shadd.†
Chpt 11in earnest = serious; or in a serious manner
- She invited him to speak the word, and the wistful, tremulous quiver of her lips was for his earnest thought of her.†
Chpt 12earnest = sincere or serious
- Fay—he shall not harm you," replied Shefford in passionate earnestness.†
Chpt 13earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- He found himself listening—listening with sick and terrible earnestness, trying to hear against the thrum and beat of his heart, straining to catch a sound in all that cold, star-blanched, silent valley.†
Chpt 13
- Ruth?" asked Lake, earnestly.†
Chpt 15earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- Briefly, in low and earnest voice, Shefford acquainted her with the plan.†
Chpt 15earnest = sincere or serious
- When Shefford concluded his earnest remarks the faces of Fay and Jane had lost the signs of suppressed dread.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(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).