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Webster 1913 Edition

Earnestness

Ear′nest-ness

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Noun.
The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.
An honest
earnestness
in the young man’s manner.
W. Irving.

Webster 1828 Edition

Earnestness

EARNESTNESS

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Noun.
ern'estness. Ardor or zeal in the pursuit of any thing; eagerness; animated desire; as, to seek or ask with earnestness; to engage in a work with earnestness.
1.
Anxious care; solicitude; intenseness of desire.
2.
Fixed desire or attention; seriousness; as,the charge was maintained with a show of gravity and earnestness.

Definition 2024

earnestness

earnestness

English

Noun

earnestness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural earnestnesses)

  1. The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
      She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

Etymology

earnest +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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