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Earnestness   /ˈərnəstnəs/   Listen
Earnestness

noun
1.
An earnest and sincere feeling.  Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity.
2.
The trait of being serious.  Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity.





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... the things they had learned about this one was that his chief characteristic was his passion for music. He was a patron of musicians and he spent much time in Munich because he loved its musical atmosphere and the earnestness of its opera-goers. ...
— The Lost Prince • Frances Hodgson Burnett
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... out by an easy-going superficiality. The expert ought to replace the amateur in every field. Every society which allows successes to superficiality diminishes its chances for mental health. Yet while thoroughness demands concentration in one direction, society must with the same earnestness insist on well-rounded general education and continuity of general interests through life. Literature and the libraries, the newspapers and the magazines play there a foremost role, and again the mental health of the community has to pay the penalty if its newspapers work ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg
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... each other's eyes and found there strange depths and lights. They were aliens, strangers, groping dimly for a common ground, and finding little, though presently they fell once more upon the law in Lost Valley and earnestness ...
— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe
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... the 26th of August in the church where he had long and faithfully conducted the worship of his people. Addresses were made by those who had been intimately associated with him in his work, which testified to the earnestness and success of his ministry. The best proof of his work is to be seen in the intelligence and virtue of the community ...
— The American Missionary -- Vol. 48, No. 10, October, 1894 • Various
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... him fleetingly a countenance of appeal and perplexity. It seemed indeed anything but certain that she was one to work in the mill. There was something almost grotesque in the idea which made Stoddard smile a little at her earnestness. ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
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