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earnestnesse

earnestnesse is the obsolete spelling of earnestness.

Meaning of earnestness

Noun

earnestness (countable and uncountable, plural earnestnesses)

  1. The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
      She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

Forms of earnestnesse

pluralearnestnesses

Questions about earnestnesse

What is earnestnesse the obsolete spelling of?
Earnestnesse is the obsolete spelling of earnestness.

Words near earnestnesse in the dictionary

  1. earnestful
  2. earnesting
  3. earnestlier
  4. earnestly
  5. earnestness
  6. earnestnesse
  7. earnestnesses
  8. earnests
  9. earnesty
  10. earneth
  11. Earney

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Adapted from Wiktionary: earnestnesse (page history and authors); earnestness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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