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Earnestness

EARNESTNESS, n. ern'estness. Ardor or zeal in the pursuit of any thing; eagerness; animated desire; as, to seek or ask with earnestness; to engage in a work with earnestness.
1. Anxious care; solicitude; intenseness of desire.
2. Fixed desire or attention; seriousness; as,the charge was maintained with a show of gravity and earnestness.

 

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