EARNESTNESS

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Traducere în limba română

earnestness substantiv

caracter serios (al unei discuţii etc.); gravitate (a tonului etc.); ardoare, fervoare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Earnestness is what that Somebody must look for, to sustain him and improve him, Trot.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

In the cold gray dawn the sisters lit their lamp and read their chapter with an earnestness never felt before.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He denied it, however, with the utmost earnestness, and I am convinced that he was speaking the truth.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His concern however was very apparent; and after expressing it with earnestness, he added, in the same low voice,—"But, Marianne, the horse is still yours, though you cannot use it now.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

But Miss Crawford persevered, and argued the case with so much affectionate earnestness through all the heads of William and the cross, and the ball, and herself, as to be finally successful.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“If you only knew the earnestness of Dora, aunt!” I cried.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He impressed these points upon them with the utmost earnestness.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It grieved her to see the earnestness with which he often watched Marianne, and his spirits were certainly worse than when at Barton.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Edmund urged her remaining where she was with an earnestness which she could not resist, and she was left on the bench to think with pleasure of her cousin's care, but with great regret that she was not stronger.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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