| 单词 | in sad earnest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin sad earnest P1. in sad earnest: in all earnestness, seriously.Originally in sense A. 3c ‘grave’; later often taken as sense A. 5 ‘mournful, sorrowful’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adverb] highlyOE deeplyc1300 solemnlya1325 sadlya1375 soberly1382 demurelyc1400 sadc1400 seriouslyc1425 solemnya1470 murely1474 solemnedlyc1480 solenny1480 in (good, sober, serious) sadness1545 gravely1553 staidly1571 solemniouslya1578 solidly1632 in sad earnest1637 ponderously1637 in jest-earnest1642 in all seriousness1679 joking apart1745 unhumorously1768 solidly1799 in sober earnest1836 mirthlessly1853 votively1857 smilelessly1869 unmirthfully1872 unsmilingly1879 inhumorously1898 soberingly1923 straightfacedly1977 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. xcix. 253 I wd. I cd. begin to be a Christian in sad earnest. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 112 An attack that made me shed tears in sad earnest. 1814 E. S. Barrett Heroine (ed. 2) III. xxxvi.199 I sat ruminating in sad earnest, on the necessity, now so evident, of my consenting to this hateful match. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets (1903) ii. 73 O my friends, in sad earnest, sad and deadly earnest, there much needs that God would mend all this. 1957 Anchor Rev. No. 2 11 If she [sc. Lolita] originally called him Dad in bitter irony, she now calls him Dad in sad earnest. 2002 Y. Takahashi in S. W. Wells Shakespeare Surv. 105 Far from avoiding the soliloquy, he [sc. Hamlet] is seen grappling with it in sad earnest. < as lemmas |
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