EARNESTLY Copy link • EARNESTLYSeriously, severe: serio: extra jocum (not in jest): ex animo (from the heart): graviter (with solemn or dignified earnestness). Eagerly, enixe (e.g., juvare, suscipere, operam dare, etc.): etiam atque etiam (with verbs of entreaty, petere, rogare, obsecrare; ☞ not enixe with these): studiose: acriter: ardenter. To wish earnestly, ardenter cupere. To look or gaze earnestly at anything, aliquid intentis oculis intueri; intueri aliquid acri et attento animo; aliquid intueri in eoque defixum esse; aliquid studiose intueri (e.g., rerum naturam); aliquid acriter oculis intueri (e.g., deficientem solem): very earnestly, aliquid quam maxime intentis oculis, ut aiunt, acerrime contemplari (all Cic.). To speak earnestly, serio dicere: cum gravitate loqui: to set earnestly to work at anything, intento studio in aliquid incumbere.