All 5 Uses of
estimate
in
The Scarlet Letter
- It is essential, in order to form a complete estimate of the advantages of official life, to view the incumbent at the in-coming of a hostile administration.†
Chpt Intr.
- And this, moreover, was a mother's estimate of the child's disposition.
Chpt 15 *estimate = a rough calculation or guess of a value, quantity, or extent of something
- The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company.
Chpt 22estimation = a judgment, rough calculation or guess of qualities or a value
- The people possessed by hereditary right the quality of reverence, which, in their descendants, if it survive at all, exists in smaller proportion, and with a vastly diminished force in the selection and estimate of public men.
Chpt 22estimate = a rough calculation or guess of a value, quantity, or extent of something
- Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.
Chpt 24estimation = a judgment, rough calculation or guess of qualities or a value
Definition:
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(estimate) rough calculation or judgment