The Only Use of
misanthrope
in
The Scarlet Letter
- There had been a period when Hester was less alive to this consideration; or, perhaps, in the misanthropy of her own trouble, she left the minister to bear what she might picture to herself as a more tolerable doom.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(misanthrope) someone who dislikes people -- and often distrusts them