All 4 Uses of
meddle
in
The Scarlet Letter
- He looked like the darkly engraved portraits which we see prefixed to old volumes of sermons, and had no more right than one of those portraits would have to step forth, as he now did, and meddle with a question of human guilt, passion, and anguish.†
Chpt 3
- This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.†
Chpt 5 *
- But who art thou, that meddlest in this matter? that dares thrust himself between the sufferer and his God?†
Chpt 10
- Meddle no more with it!†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(meddle) interfere (in another's affairs or business); or handle (something that shouldn't be handled)