Both Uses of
entangled
in
The Scarlet Letter
- But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and disentangling its mesh of good and evil, than the sages of rigid aspect towards whom Hester Prynne now turned her face.†
Chpt 3
- And then what a happiness would it have been could Hester Prynne have heard her clear, bird-like voice mingling with the uproar of other childish voices, and have distinguished and unravelled her own darling's tones, amid all the entangled outcry of a group of sportive children.
Chpt 6 *entangled = mixed together
Definition:
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(entangled as in: entangled in the branches) caught in
or:
twisted together into a confusing mass