The Only Use
acquiesce
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- Her only justification lay in the fact that she had been able to discern no method of rescuing him from a blacker ruin than had overwhelmed herself except by acquiescing in Roger Chillingworth's scheme of disguise.†
p. 154.4acquiescing = reluctantly complying
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquiesce) reluctant or unenthusiastic compliance, consent, or agreement
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)