The Only Use of
extant
in
The Scarlet Letter
- This was a large wooden house, built in a fashion of which there are specimens still extant in the streets of our older towns now moss-grown, crumbling to decay, and melancholy at heart with the many sorrowful or joyful occurrences, remembered or forgotten, that have happened and passed away within their dusky chambers.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(extant) still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost