All 3 Uses of
grovel
in
The Scarlet Letter
- It grovelled helpless on the ground, even while his intellectual faculties retained their pristine strength, or had perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have given them.†
Chpt 13 *
- His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth.†
Chpt 18
- —I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood, here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face!†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(grovel) to show submission or fear -- sometimes by crawling or lying face down