Definition of Eagernesses

1. eagerness [n] - See also: eagerness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eagernesses

each to his own
each week
each year
eaches
eachother
eachwhere
eadish
eadishes
eager
eager beavers
eagerer
eagerest
eagerly
eagerness
eagernesses (current term)
eagers
eagle
eagle-eyed
eagle-owl
eagle eye
eagle owl
eagle owls
eagle ray
eagle scout
eagled
eaglehawk
eaglehawks
eaglelike
eagles

Literary usage of Eagernesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sermons by Frederick Brooks, Phillips Brooks (1876)
"Then the old vows and the old hopes and the old eagernesses are reproaches; and their brightness and glory cast long sad shadows over us from the walls ..."

2. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"... of the millions of human aspirations and hopes and youthful eagernesses contained in the great sprawling, uneasy entity we call our country—must all the ..."

3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1820)
"... stimulating each other's eagernesses ; that you had been systematically endeavouring, by all possible means of exaggerated and false statement of your ..."

4. The Trial of Edward Marcus Despard, Esquire, for High Treason at the Session by Edward Marcus Despard, Joseph Gurney, Great Britain, William Brodie Gurney (1803)
"... inflaming each others passions, stimulating each others eagernesses; that you had been systematically endeavouring, by all possible means of exaggerated ..."

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