Maana ya kamusi ya "uaminifu" ni ubora wa kuwa makini, mkweli, na kujitolea katika mawazo, hisia na matendo ya mtu. Inarejelea dhamira ya kina na ya kweli au nia ya kufanya kitu au kufikia lengo fulani. Inamaanisha hisia ya kusudi na azimio, na nia ya kutoa umakini na bidii ya mtu kwa kazi au lengo.
1. I say so because Don Fernando made all haste to leave me, and by the adroitness of my maid, who was indeed the one who had admitted him, gained the street before daybreak but on taking leave of me he told me, though not with as much earnestness and fervour as when he came, that I might rest assured of his faith and of the sanctity and sincerity of his oaths and to confirm his words he drew a rich ring off his finger and placed it upon mine.
2. The two horses came up close to me, looking with great earnestness upon my face and hands.
3. Those who appreciated the subject matter sensed the earnestness behind the effort and had reciprocated with their support.
4. The next morning going on deck, as he always did at an early hour, the patron found Dantès leaning against the bulwarks gazing with intense earnestness at a pile of granite rocks, which the rising sun tinged with rosy light.
5. You must know I felt so interested in the splendid roan horse, with his elegant little rider, so tastefully dressed in a pink satin jacket and cap, that I could not help praying for their success with as much earnestness as though the half of my fortune were at stake and when I saw them outstrip all the others, and come to the winning-post in such gallant style, I actually clapped my hands with joy.
6. Then on the top of these more or less vague impressions there had come the definite and distinct warning of Miss Stapleton, delivered with such intense earnestness that I could not doubt that some grave and deep reason lay behind it.
7. The scout and his companions immediately made their preparations to pass the night there but with an earnestness and sobriety of demeanor that betrayed how much the unusual horrors they had just witnessed worked on even their practised feelings.
8. Heyward struggled madly with his captors the anxious eye of Hawkeye began to look around him, with an expression of peculiar earnestness and Cora again threw herself at the feet of the patriarch, once more a suppliant for mercy.
9. The earnestness of his words, the studied slowness with which he pronounced them, the solemnity of his oath, gave the musketeer the most complete satisfaction.
10. In his endeavor there was a dreadful earnestness, as if he conceived that one great shriek would make him well.