All 7 Uses of
reflection
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Yet my reflections were not the most comfortable.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)reflections = thoughts
- It appalled her, nevertheless, to discern here, again, a shadowy reflection of the evil that had existed in herself.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- It had the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson's home-field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up serious reflections, suited to their respective employments, in both minister and man of physic.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)reflections = thoughts
- Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *reflection = image (as shined back by a smooth surface)
- Now, however, her interview with the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, on the night of his vigil, had given her a new theme of reflection, and held up to her an object that appeared worthy of any exertion and sacrifice for its attainment.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- While occupied with these reflections, a knock came at the door of the study, and the minister said, "Come in!"
Chpt 20 (definition 1) *reflections = thoughts
- The dim reflection of a remembered splendour, a colourless and manifold diluted repetition of what they had beheld in proud old London—we will not say at a royal coronation, but at a Lord Mayor's show—might be traced in the customs which our forefathers instituted, with reference to the annual installation of magistrates.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (reflections as in: share my reflections about it) memories and thoughts about them
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(2) (reflection as in: my reflection in the mirror) an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)