Both Uses of
infusion
in
The Scarlet Letter
- It was impossible to doubt that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.†
Chpt 13 *
- The instilment thereof into her mind would probably have caused this aged sister to drop down dead, at once, as by the effect of an intensely poisonous infusion.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(infusion) to add something to something else to make it better; or the thing added