The Only Use of
pithy
in
The Scarlet Letter
- But, on this occasion, up to the moment of putting his lips to the old woman's ear, Mr. Dimmesdale, as the great enemy of souls would have it, could recall no text of Scripture, nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, as it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(pithy) concise (said in few words), but full of meaning