The Only Use of
democratic
in
The Scarlet Letter
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- If, heretofore, I had been none of the warmest of partisans I began now, at this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay; nor was it without something like regret and shame that, according to a reasonable calculation of chances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren.†
Chpt Intr.
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, democratic refers to the United States political party, the Democrats whose main political rivals are the Republicans.