Both Uses of
immaterial
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Reminiscences, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school-days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her, intermingled with recollections of whatever was gravest in her subsequent life; one picture precisely as vivid as another; as if all were of similar importance, or all alike a play.
Chpt 2immaterial = not important, or not relevant
- This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
Chpt 5 *immaterial = unimportant
Definition:
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(immaterial as in: immaterial to the problem at hand) not important, or not relevanteditor's notes: "Immaterial" is a commonly heard objection to introducing evidence or an argument in court.