earnestness

earnest | American Dictionary

earnest
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈɜr·nəst/
sincere and serious:
She made an earnest attempt to convert me to her point of view.
 in earnest
If something is done in earnest, it is done seriously:
Work on the building began, in earnest, in late spring.

earnestly

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈɜr·nəs·tli/

earnestness

noun[ U ]us/ˈɜr·nəst·nəs/

Examples of earnest

earnest
There was even something of an anti-advertising ' ' consumer movement ' ' of considerable size beginning to form, ' ' giving many earnest souls the jitters.
He comes across as an earnest but blinkered academic.
We now begin our argument in earnest at the point of tension between realism and liberalism.
The importance of not being in earnest carries with it the sound of what must be discounted: particularly, goodness.
Her earnest attempts to explain away the authorities' "natural" reaction belie, however, the ironic, knowing quality of her writing.
Long and earnest study of the subject enabled us to become tri-lingual.
The commercialisation of the blues could now begin in earnest.
Both characters were earnest, ethical, and slid from irony to cynicism when dealing with the absurdities of existence.
Despite its initial popularity this closeness in design, once the war began in earnest, became problematic.
His linguistic creed is that while language, like life, is perdurably real and earnest, it should also be fun to watch.
At the same time, the type theory community's interest in and need for good programming technology is developing in earnest.
Partition in real earnest and full operation must now be faced.
Given the threatened status of indigenous languages, sociolinguistic researchers having a social commitment should make earnest and continuous endeavors to honor and preserve linguistic diversity.
Here he began his project of electroencephalog raphic investigation in earnest.
Ear-piercingly earnest and equally full of pitch-perfect bombast.
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