All 3 Uses of
phase
in
The Scarlet Letter
- It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town.
Chpt Intr.phase = stages of development
- She might, in one of her phases, have been a prophetess.
Chpt 13 *
- This earthly faintness, was, in their view, only another phase of the minister's celestial strength; nor would it have seemed a miracle too high to be wrought for one so holy, had he ascended before their eyes, waxing dimmer and brighter, and fading at last into the light of heaven!
Chpt 23phase = stage of development
Definition:
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(phase as in: during the first phase) a period of time or a stage during the development of something