earnestest
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]earnestest
- (now rare) superlative form of earnest: most earnest
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, 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.