a. (UN-1 7.)
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 332. Al ye whyle [he] pronounced suche an hainous matier wt an unearnest countenaunce. Ibid. (1548), Erasm. Par. Luke xii. 105. Except that euen those veraie thinges … be possessed of vs after an vnearnest sorte.
1611. Florio, Disferuorare, to make vnearnest, to coole.
1877. Abp. Benson, in Life (1899), I. 435. The state of things in which she wrote was … very unearnest in many ways.
