All 7 Uses of
tinged
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition through and through with a sable tinge.†
Chpt Intr.
- It throws its unobtrusive tinge throughout the room, with a faint ruddiness upon the walls and ceiling, and a reflected gleam upon the polish of the furniture.†
Chpt Intr.
- But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.†
Chpt 5
- They averred that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth, tinged in an earthly dye-pot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the night-time.†
Chpt 5
- Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.†
Chpt 9
- Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood.†
Chpt 18 *
- But we perhaps exaggerate the gray or sable tinge, which undoubtedly characterized the mood and manners of the age.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(tinged) with a slight amount
(If an amount of what is not clear from context, it is typically of color.)