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† Earnest sb.3. World English Historical Dictionary

† Earnest sb.3. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. † Earnest sb.3 Obs. ? Mistake for OE. ornest single combat; the ground for the concluding statement in the quot. is unknown.

1 1591.  Lambarde, Archeion (1635), 44. That if a French man doe appeale an English man of perjurie or murder, the French man may defend himselfe by Battaile, which was then termed in English, Ernest; a word that we keep yet, saying, when wee see a man fight, hee is an Ernest.

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