Earnestness Definition

Earnestness Sentence Examples

• Tait had all Blomfield's earnestness and his powers of work, with far wider interests.

• At the same time he studied with great earnestness the writings of Kant and Jacobi.

• Neither Theophrastus at the Lyceum, nor Xenocrates and Polemo at the Academy, nor Stilpo, who was drawing crowds to hear him at Megara, could be said to have inherited much of the great reformer's intellectual vigour, to say nothing of his moral earnestness.

• As a preacher he lacked all the graces of oratory, but compelled attention by his searching and practical earnestness.

• In New Zealand the government of the colony has displayed the most praiseworthy earnestness and vigour in promoting apiculture.