Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word earneft.
Examples
-
By the proportion which I have npw the honor to make in behalf of my government, your lordfllip will perceive the earneft defire of the prefident to remove every obltaclc to an accommo - dation, which confifts merely of form; and to fecure the right* and interefts of the United States in a manner the mod fatisfac - tory and honorable to Great Britain as well as to America.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
-
The Wadjorefe, notwithftanding the earneft repi*efentations of the Company's fer -
-
As afupplement to this article, the Court cannot help again fubmitting to con - 22. 22. fideration the earneft defire and hope of the Proprietors to be exonerated out of the general funds of the Company from the payment of the property tax.
-
Adraw - iftration have in vairt fued for it, through Mr. Rufleil* even attflc expenceofthefarcaftiefheersof the Britifh minifter; gt* then prepare in good earneft for war.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
-
On my part, feeing that all my hopes refted on his compaffion, I threw my - felf on - my knees in the fatal 'carriage, prefenting to the eyes of my intended affaffin my countenance batlied with tears, and my out-ftretched handd dafp - ed together in earneft fupplIckdOd'.
Emily de Varmont; or, Divorce dictated by necessity; to which are added, The amours of father ... 1798
-
Hence fays the apoftle, "He who hath wrought us, for the felf fame thing is God, who hath alfo given us the earneft of the fpirit;" that is, the firft fruits of the heavenly Canaan.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
-
In fport, indeed, by the afliftance of that faculty, I made jour - nies in the moon and in Jupiterburg; but, that I ihould ever have believed in earneft that I was able to fly with you beyond the limits prefcribed by nature to our five fenfes, and confequentlyto our reafon, in our former life, was a thing, as little likdy to PERECimWJ« PROTEUS.
-
With Hope ftill fcattering in his rear The feedling earneft of the year;
The poetical works, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of the life of the author Clare, Thomas 1796
-
This is a work that demands our firft and moft earneft regard; the ftudies and af - fiftance, the favour and encouragement of all.
Analysis of researches into the origin and progress of historical time Walker, Robert, fl. 1796. [from old catalog] 1796
-
Indeed I have had earneft, bat I cannot with coo - fcicnce take it.
Works 1795
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.