Both Uses of
waver
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure.†
Chpt 15 *
- He still walked onward, if that movement could be so described, which rather resembled the wavering effort of an infant, with its mother's arms in view, outstretched to tempt him forward.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(waver) to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak