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  • earnest — 1 adjective 1 very serious and believing that what you say is very important: such an earnest young man 2 in earnest if something starts happening in earnest, it begins properly or as it was planned to happen: On Monday your training begins in… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • give diligence — Diligence Dil i*gence, n. [F. diligence, L. diligentia.] 1. The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; the opposite of negligence. [1913 Webster] 2. Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Give Us This Day — Infobox Film name = Give Us This Day image size = caption = director = Edward Dmytryk producer = Edward Dmytryk Nat A. Bronsten Rod E. Geiger writer = Ben Barzman Hans Székely (uncredited) Pietro Di Donato (novel) narrator = starring = Sam… …   Wikipedia

  • Earnest —    The Spirit is the earnest of the believer s destined inheritance (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:14). The word thus rendered is the same as that rendered pledge in Gen. 38:17 20; indeed, the Hebrew word has simply passed into the Greek and Latin… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • Allen, Ivan Earnest, Jr. — ▪ 2004       American politician (b. March 15, 1911, Atlanta, Ga. d. July 2, 2003, Atlanta), served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970, and, having discarded his previous segregationist stance, led the city in integrating schools, businesses,… …   Universalium

  • Importance of Being Earnest — Importance of Be|ing Ear|nest, The (1895) a play by Oscar Wilde in which a man pretends that his name is Ernest because he thinks this will give him an advantage with a woman he admires →↑Bracknell, Lady …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • pawn — [n1] security for a loan assurance, bond, collateral, earnest, forfeit, gage, gambit, guarantee, guaranty, pledge, security, token, warrant; concept 332 pawn [n2] person who is a fool creature, dupe*, instrument, mark*, patsy*, pigeon*, puppet,… …   New thesaurus

  • admonish — transitive verb Etymology: Middle English admonesten, from Anglo French amonester, from Vulgar Latin *admonestare, alteration of Latin admonēre to warn, from ad + monēre to warn more at mind Date: 14th century 1. a. to indicate duties or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pawn — 1 / pȯn/ n 1 a: a pledge and transfer of possession of movable or personal property to a creditor which gives the creditor the privilege of satisfying the debt from the property (as by selling it) if the debt is not repaid within a specified… …   Law dictionary

  • pawn — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. pledge, hock (sl.). See debt, security. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A person used for another s purposes] Syn. cat s paw, dupe, fool; see tool 2 , victim 2 . 2. [Something given as security] Syn. pledge …   English dictionary for students

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