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Definition of Earnests
1. earnest [n] - See also: earnest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earnests
Literary usage of Earnests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"May they Receive their earnests to ihe uttermost mite! RUTLER. And their death
shall precede his! We meant to have taken them alive this evening Amid the ..."
2. The Hammersmith Protestant Discussion: Being an Authenticated Report of the by John Cumming, Daniel French (1852)
"... AS earnests OF THE AGE TO COME. PREFACE. " It ha* been the design of the
author, in these Lectures, to set forth as fully as possible, the redemptive ..."
3. The Natural History of Immortality by Joseph William Reynolds (1891)
"Having thought of the qualifying, the governing, the practical conditions of
faith-healing, remember that present gifts and graces are earnests of greater ..."
4. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"May thej Receive their earnests to the uttermost mite ! BUTLER. And their death
shall precede his! We meant to have taken them alive this evening Amid the ..."
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