# earnestlier
## English
### Adverb

earnestlier
* (obsolete) comparative form of earnestly: more earnestly
** 1563, Lawrence Humfrey, The Nobles or of Nobilitye. The Original Nature, Dutyes, Right, and Christian Institucion Thereof Three Bookes. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe; republished in Early English Books Online‎, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:Of necessitye there∣fore, ought noble men be good. Both, for them selues and others: that they may trayne manye in theyr vertues, not vices. Of which sorte of Nobles, the lesse plenty there hath bene hither to, the earnestlier, ought al men, with theyr whole mighte and power ende∣uour: that these of our dayes encrease the number, and euen drowne theyr auncestours, so to become more fa∣mous, and acceptable to all men.
** 1564 May, Trogus Pompeius [i.e., Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus], Iustine [i.e., Justin], translated by Arthur Goldyng, Thabridgment of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius, Collected and Wrytten in the Laten Tonge, by the Famous Historiographer Iustine, […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, folios 34, verso – 35, recto; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:But the souldiers of Conon raised a mutiny against him, be∣cause* the kinges lieuetenaunts before time had ben wont to abridge and defraud them of their wages. Demaunding their duties so much the earnestlier, in that they toke vpon them to serue in so greate warres vnder so noble a chiefe∣taine.
** {{quote-book|en|author=Theodore de Beza|tlr=[[w:Robert Fills|R[obert] F[ills]]]|title=A Briefe and Piththie Summe of the Christian Faith, Made in Forme of a Confession, vvith a Confutation of All Such Superstitious Errours, as Are Contrary Therevnto|location=London|publisher= […] Richard Serll, […]|year=[1565?]|section=folio 119, verso|sectionurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A68595.0001.001/1:8.5.39?ALLSELECTED=1;c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=div3;singlegenre=All;sort=datea;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;xc=1;q1=earnestlier%7Cnewversion=republished in|title2=Early English Books Online|location2=Ann Arbor, Mich.|publisher2=w:Text Creation Partnership|year2=p. 2011|passage=Third∣lye wée allowe not fasting symplye as a woorke that maketh vs acceptable or pleasing to God of it selfe, but because it serueth vs to thrée good endes, the first to presse down our flesh, abating y• strēgth thereof $^p$, touching many violent and euil affections $^q$: the second, the earnest∣lier to make and dispose our praiers and spiritual thankes geuing to God $^r$.}}
** {{quote-book|en|author=w:Polybius|tlr=[[w:Christopher Watson (translator)|C[hristopher] W[atson]]]|title=The Hystories of the Most Famous and Worthy Cronographer Polybius: Discoursing of the Warres betwixt the Romanes & Carthaginenses, […]|location=London|publisher= […] Henry Bynneman for Thomas Hacket. […]|year=[1568]|section=folio 29, verso|sectionurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A09832.0001.001/1:8?ALLSELECTED=1;c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=div1;singlegenre=All;sort=datea;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;xc=1;q1=earnestlier%7Cnewversion=republished in|title2=Early English Books Online|location2=Ann Arbor, Mich.|publisher2=w:Text Creation Partnership|year2=p. 2011|passage=The Romanes hauing thus obtained the domination of the seas, persisted in their warres, and earnest∣lier employed their busines, sailing in∣to the coastes of Segestana, deliuering the towne there from besieging, then setting from them, they wonne the ci∣tie Macella.}}
** 1574, Augustine Marlorate [i.e., Augustin Marlorat], “[Revelation 11:3]”, in Arthur Golding, transl., A Catholike Exposition vpon the Reuelation of Sainct Iohn. […], London: […] H[enry] Binneman, for L[ucas] Harison, and G[eorge] Bishop, →OCLC, folio 150, verso:Foꝛ like as in Iſraell, the moꝛe that Idolatrie waxed ſtrong, and the whoter that the diſpleaſure of wicked Iezabell burned againſt the true pꝛophets of the Loꝛd, ſo much the earneſtlier did Elias pꝛeache, and ſo muche the ſtoutlyer did he pꝛocure the deſtruction of Baals pꝛéeſtes: […]
** 1574, Iohn Caluin, translated by Arthur Golding, Sermons of Master Iohn Caluin, vpon the Booke of Iob. […], [London]: […] [Henry Bynneman for] Lucas Harison and George Byshop, page 393; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:Also (as I haue tolde you) the question is not whither God per∣fourme his iudgements swiftly: but yet doth hee giue vs some shewe of them euen in this life, too the ende wee should the earnestlier herken for the last day, whereas all things shall bee set agayne in their full state and per∣fection.
** 1575, Thomas Cartwright, The Second Replie of Thomas Cartwright: agaynst Maister Doctor Whitgiftes Second Answer / Touching the Churche Discipline, [Heidelberg]: [Michael Schirat], pages CCXXVI–CCXXVII; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:And indeede he calleth vs heere / to the consideration off our sinnes: wherby wee haue thus prodigally wasted / and gyuē into the handes of straungers / the liberties which were bowght with so great a price. And wee haue better cawse to thinke the earne∣stlier off them / for somuche as the Answ. lawgheth vs to scorne / and woulde make vs beleue that wee consente to elections when wee are a sleepe / that we chuse those / whom wee refuse: and so o∣ther eatinge the kernels / he maketh vs not a diner / but a feaste with the shels.
** 1581, Martine Luther, translated by Thomas Newton, A Commentarie or Exposition vppon the Twoo Epistles Generall of Sainct Peter, and That of Sainct Jude. […], London: […] [John Kingston] for Abraham Veale […], folio 114, recto; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:But why then (will ye saie) doth God place vs in this life beeyng so full of miseries? Truely for this cause, that our Faith maie be exercised and encreased, and that we should be the gladder and willinger to departe hence: and further that Death might become more sauoueie vnto vs, and bee the ear∣nestlier of vs desired.
** {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Peter Martyr Vermigli|Peter Martyr [Vermigli]]]|tlr=Anthonie Marten|title=The Common Places of the Most Famous and Renowmed Diuine Doctor Peter Martyr, Diuided into Foure Principall Parts: with a Large Addition of Manie Theologicall and Necessarie Discourses, Some Neuer Extant Before. […]|location=London|publisher= […] [Henry Denham and Henry Middleton] at the costs and charges of Henrie Denham, Thomas Chard, VVilliam Broome, and Andrew Maunsell|year=1583|page=408|pageurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A14350.0001.001/1:8.9.12?ALLSELECTED=1;c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=div3;singlegenre=All;sort=datea;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;xc=1;q1=earnestlier%7Cnewversion=republished in|title2=Early English Books Online|location2=Ann Arbor, Mich.|publisher2=w:Text Creation Partnership|year2=p. 2011|passage=Which affects, being agréeable to reason, are not onelie honest and laudable, but also verie profitable: for they are giuen as certeine spurs to godlie life. For it is not sufficient to knowe those things that are good, but we must be earnestlie stirred vp vnto them. For the affects be as it were si∣newes, by whose stretching foorth, or shrinking in, we are the earnestlier, or the lightlier stirred vp.}}
** 1588, Warham St. Leger, “Extracted from the first of three Tracts sent to Burleigh”, in The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archæological Society, volume II, Dublin: […] [T]he University Press. M$^c$Glashan & Gill, […], published 1859, page 376:As there is nothinge that the Irishe more esteme then the nobilitie of bloud, pferringe it farre before eyther vertue or wealth, so abhorre they nothinge more then disparagem$^t$, more odious unto them then Death; w$^c$h well apeared in that late communicac̃on of mariadge betwene the Earle of Glyncarr’s daughter, and supposed heire, and Sir Valentine Browne’s yonger sonne, w$^c$h both by the Earle assented unto for money, and for reward by certen of his men negotiated in the countrey very earnestlie, as well for the matter as for the maner of atchyvinge, wrought generally in those parts a bitter discontentment, so much the deepelier printed in their myndes, by how much the earnestlier it was borne them in hande (by those that undertooke to effect it), that it must needes take place, for that it was intended by the state; soe well liked of by Her Majestie, and so resolved upon by the Earle.
** 1590, Edward Ieninges, A Briefe Discouery of the Damages that Happen to This Realme by Disordered and Vnlawfull Diet. The Benefites and Commodities that Otherwaies Might Ensue. With a Perswasion of the People: for a Better Maintenance to the Nauie. […], London: […] Roger Ward, […], page 7; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:CONCERNING OBEDIENCE TO THE polliticke lawes ordained by Princes. Their care for the commoditie of the people. The disobedient are to be punished, some lavves are more earnestlier to be cared for then other some.
** 1595 November 6, Robert Sydney [i.e., Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester], “Sir Robert Sydney to the Earl of Essex, November 6, 1595”, in William Murdin, A Collection of State Papers Relating to Affairs in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 1571 to 1596. Transcribed from Original Papers and Other Authentic Memorials Never Before Published, […], London: […] William Bowyer, […], published 1759, page 697:My Letter, your Lordſhip speekes of to my Lord Treaſurer, I hope can not give him any juſt Cauſe of Offence: But hetherunto mower Matters heer hath ſeemed ſtil to ſleep, which made me write the earneſtlier, that I might ſomewhat awake him, which, it ſeems, I have by his Saying. that for his own Diſcharge he wil move the Queen about this Town.
** 1603, [Henry Timberlake], A True and Strange Discourse of the Trauailes of Two English Pilgrimes: What Admirable Accidents Befell Them in Their Iourney to Ierusalem, Gaza, Grand Cayro, Alexandria, and Other Places: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for Thomas Archer, […], page 16; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:Going vp to the top of the Church, I saw vpon the leads the name of M. Hugo Stapers againe ingranen, which made mee looke the earnestlier for some other Englishmens names: but finding none, I carued downe my name and came away thē went we in and dined with the Friers.
** a. 1605, John Whitgift, edited by John Ayre for The Parker Society, The Works of John Whitgift, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Dean of Lincoln, &c. Afterwards Successively Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury. The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates I-VI., Cambridge, Cambs.: […] The University Press, published 1851, page 297:Besides that, albeit those two Matthias and Barsabas were therefore set up in the midst, that the church, in the prayer that was made for their election, might by seeing them pray the earnestlier for them; yet it was also as much to say that, if any could object any thing against them, that he should prefer his objection.
** 1618, Peter de la Primaudaye [i.e., Pierre de La Primaudaye], translated by W. P. [i.e., William Phillip?], The Christian Philosophie of the French Academie. Of the True and Onely Meanes to Obtaine Eternall Life. The Fourth Booke. […] (The French Academie. Fully Discoursed and Finished in Foure Bookes. […]), London: […] [John Legat] for Thomas Adams, page 909:For the zeale that we ought to haue to the glory of God, the charity which we ſhould ſhew towards our neighbours, and the good that we wiſh vnto our ſelues, moueth vs euery day to make this prayer vnto God; and ſo much the carefulier and earnestlier, as ſaying it from the mouth of Ieſus Chriſt, that made it: we are aſſured to be heard, and conſequently to ſerue for the aduancement of the kingdome of God, to the good and ſaluation of our brethren, and for our owne benefit.
** 1619, Edmund Bert, An Approued Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Richard Moore, […], pages 11–12; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:My place of peppering should be in a very warme roome, although the fire were not very great I cared not, my time should be in the eue∣ning, and for my company I cared not how ma∣ny both men and dogs, the more the better, for * then the Hawke seeing so many things, that any one of them might giue offence alone, there is now so much change, men, dogges, fire-light, and candle-light, that she looketh at all, and knoweth not which to be afraid of.*. The earnest∣lier she loo∣keth at many things, the lesse she will feare any.
** 1619, I. C., The Euer-Burning Lamps of Pietie and Deuotion. Kindled by Many Excellent and Heauenly Prayers, Deuided into the Seuerall Dayes of the Weeke, and Other Occasions: […], London: […] George Purslowe for Richard Hawkins, […], page 179; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:Moderate, O Lord, my sicknesse and paines, that I may the freelier haue recourse vn∣to thee; strengthen and confirme my fainting and decaying voyce, that I may the earnestlier cry vnto thee: […]
** 1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian His Disease and Cure. Discovering Lively to the Reader the Spirituall Leprosie of Sinne and Selfe-Love: Together with the Remedies, viz. Selfe-Deniall and Faith. […], London: […] Th: Harper for Philip Nevil, […], pages 585–586; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:But thou wilt say, My prayers be not heard. Not presently: but it is, that thou mightst pray oftner, and earnestlier, that so God may deliver thee from that thou fearest, and his grace may bee sufficient for thee.
** a. 1644, Lucius Cary, [2nd] Lord Viscount of Falkland, “[The Lord of Faulklands Reply.] The Second Part.”, in Sir Lucius Cary, Late Lord Viscount of Falkland, His Discourse of Infallibility, with an Answer to It: And His Lordships Reply. […], London: […] Gartrude Dawson, for Iohn Hardesty, […], published 1651, page 98:[…] ſince therefore a ſmall miſtake encreaſeth as much, and as ſpeedily as a graine of muſtard-ſeed, I muſt the earneſtlier contradict this [Greek text], this firſt error of yours, as being the Parent of ſo many more already, and being likely in time (if by being confuted it be not us’d as Sature us’d his Father) to have yet a more large and numerous Iſſue.
** 1659, Daniel Pell, Πελαγοσ [Pelagos]. Nec inter Vivos, nec inter Mortuos, neither amongst the Living, nor amongst the Dead. Or, An Improvement of the Sea, upon the Nine Nautical Verses in the 107. Psalm; […], London: […] Livewell Chapman, […], page 483; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:That Sea-men seek not the Lord so ear∣nestly [Observ. 17] in tempestuous storms,*but they have need of stirring up to seek him ear∣nestlier.
** 1676, [Roger Boyle, 1st] Earl of Orrery, Parthenissa, That Most Fam’d Romance. […], London: […] T. N. for Henry Herringman, […], page 347:That this power he had the more eaſily obtain’d, becauſe the Princeſs Altezeera by marrying Pacorus, had declar’d herſelf as much an Enemy to Rome, as to me; and being the apparent Succeſſor of Armenia, the Senate were juſtly jealous of uniting that Crown with the Parthian: That too he had the earneſtlier ambition’d this, becauſe that forfeiture of Artabazus’s gave me a right to Armenia by my birth, which a Roman Army would ſo confirm, that he would find in injuring Artavaſdes, he had as much wrong’d his intereſt, as his honeſty.
** 1685, John Bunyan, The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse Touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the One, and the Nature of the Other: Shewing What They Are, as They Are the Two Covenants; […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], page 324; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:And so all along, if he tell thee of thy Dead∣ness, Dulness, Coldness, or Unbelief, or the greatness of thy Sins; answer him, and say, I am glad you told me, I hope it will be a means to make me run faster, seek earnestli∣er, and to be the more restless after Jesus Christ.
** 1890, Mary E[llen] Bamford, A Piece of Kitty Hunter’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Oh.: Cranston & Stowe, pages 17–18:There was a queer young Swede at our prayer-meeting. He could hardly talk English enough to make himself understood, and once he stopped and said, “I no can tell it. It is behind my expression.” / But he said some things I could make out. He said, “O, that we all might earnestlier be!” / And he prayed that we might be kept “vatching” and might be full of “zhoy.”
** 1891 January 14, “Atcha: A Sternutation in Six Explosions. V.”, in Fun, volume LIII, number 1340, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 17, column 2:“When we get out of Shadiest Africa, perhaps,” says John, consolingly, “I shall probably find a living waiting for me at the post office, Zanzibar, But it is wrong to holler till you are out of the wood.” / “And we are very much in it at present,” sighs Alweelia. She looks up at the sombre branches which form an impenetrable. . . . . “But, as you know, I only live for you.” / Earnestlier than ever he has wished anything does John Pettyblue wish that Alweelia would not take the trouble.