All 5 Uses of
apprehension
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The careless security of his life in the Custom-House, on a regular income, and with but slight and infrequent apprehensions of removal, had no doubt contributed to make time pass lightly over him.
Chpt Intr.apprehensions = worries
- To confess the truth, it was my greatest apprehension—as it would never be a measure of policy to turn out so quiet an individual as myself; and it being hardly in the nature of a public officer to resign—it was my chief trouble, therefore, that I was likely to grow grey and decrepit in the Surveyorship, and become much such another animal as the old Inspector.
Chpt Intr.apprehension = worry
- Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.
Chpt 4
- Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension.
Chpt 6 *
- Thus the minister felt no apprehension that Roger Chillingworth would touch, in express words, upon the real position which they sustained towards one another.
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(apprehension as in: apprehension about finals) worry about what is to come