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Synonymer
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
- A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come.
- Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to jesting or feigned appearance); fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.
Verb
Adjektiv
- Serious in speech or action; eager; urgent; importunate; pressing; instant.
- Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavour; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; — used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers.
- Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention.
- Possessing or characterised by seriousness; strongly bent; intent.
- Strenuous; diligent.
- Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; not trifling or feigned; important.
Exempel
- Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest.
- given in earnest what I begged in jest
- Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest, That when we come to earnest them with men, We may them better use.
- an earnest disposition
- earnest efforts
- But if all this was viewed by Gladstone and the Cabinet as an earnest of St Petersburg's future good intentions in Central Asia, then disillusionment was soon to follow.
- Lakla marcha juste devant en discussion sérieuse avec Rador, et j’étais assez satisfait pour une fois de la regarder.
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | earnested | Imperfekt | earnested |
| Presensparticip | earnesting | Plural | earnests |
| Komparativ | earnester | Komparativ | more earnest |
| Superlativ | earnestest | Superlativ | most earnest |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | earnests |