Both Uses of
abstruse
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Besides, in our day, the very ABC has become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to letter.
Chpt 2 *abstruse = difficult to understand
- Others, whose briefer span forbade their devoting themselves to studies so abstruse, beguiled the little tedium of the way with penny-papers.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(abstruse) difficult to understand; or not known by the great majority of people