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.