Difference between earnest and asseveration
Definitions
adjective
- sincerely earnest
- not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
- characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
noun
- something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
Examples
Jonathan's soothing assurances did not satisfy David, and he 'sware' in the earnestness of his conviction.
The constant barrage of earnestly delivered silliness should win over even the hardest hearts.
It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death.
Definitions
noun
- a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Examples
The oath of one of the initiated must counterbalance the most solemn asseveration of every one that is not acquainted with our holy secrets.
For it is I think that gives the asseveration such grace and dignity, so that a small but not insignificant wrong is done when (on a couple of occasions in Posthumous Keats) his precisely guarded hope is indurated into "his statement to his brother George, in 1818, that he would be among the English poets after his death," within "a future that meant to place him 'among the English poets.'
It is not expedient to burden this preliminary to my story with further details, which I do make asseveration I possess a-plenty.
