earnestest

English

Adjective

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.

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