The Only Use of
inextricable
in
The Scarlet Letter
- This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(inextricable) impossible to extract, disentangle, or avoid; or hopelessly intricate