Definition of Earnestness

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Definition of Earnestness
	Earnestness The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. Related Definitions: Anxiety, Being, Earnest, Intentness, Of, Or, Quality, State, The

Earnestness Quotations

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
Benjamin Harrison

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
John Woolman

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
John Strachan

Earnestness Translations

earnestness in German is Ernst
earnestness in Latin is intenta

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