Both Uses of
malleable
in
The Scarlet Letter
- ...integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore;
Chpt Intr. *unmalleable = incapable of being shapedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmalleable means not and reverses the meaning of malleable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The characters of the narrative would not be warmed and rendered malleable by any heat that I could kindle at my intellectual forge.
Chpt Intr.malleable = easily influenced
Definition:
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(malleable) of people: easily influenced
of materials: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out