The Only Use of
affinity
in
The Scarlet Letter
- if he have the power, which must be born with him, to bring his mind into such affinity with his patient's, that this last shall unawares have spoken what he imagines himself only to have thought;†
p. 115.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(affinity) a natural attraction, sympathy, or important similarity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Affinity is also used technically to describe physical attractions such as between atoms or antigens and antibodies.