All 6 Uses of
utmost
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The impression made by his aspect, so rigid and severe, and frost-bitten with more than autumnal age, was hardly in keeping with the appliances of worldly enjoyment wherewith he had evidently done his utmost to surround himself.†
Chpt 8
- She decided, moreover, that he had a right to her utmost aid.†
Chpt 13 *
- Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!†
Chpt 15
- "They know each other well, indeed," replied Hester, with a mien of calmness, though in the utmost consternation.†
Chpt 21
- But even when the minister's voice grew high and commanding—when it gushed irrepressibly upward—when it assumed its utmost breadth and power, so overfilling the church as to burst its way through the solid walls, and diffuse itself in the open air—still, if the auditor listened intently, and for the purpose, he could detect the same cry of pain.†
Chpt 22
- Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual fife upon another: each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his subject.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(utmost) greatest