Both Uses of
vicissitudes
in
The Scarlet Letter
- For upwards of twenty years before this epoch, the independent position of the Collector had kept the Salem Custom-House out of the whirlpool of political vicissitude, which makes the tenure of office generally so fragile.†
Chpt Intr.
- So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.†
Chpt 20 *
Definition:
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(vicissitudes) changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties