earnestest
English
Adjective
earnestest
- (now rare) superlative form of earnest: most earnest
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.31:
- When I chance to be angry, it is in the earnestest manner that may be, but yet as briefly and as secretly, as is possible.
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