Both Uses of
anxiety
in
The Scarlet Letter
- When the light of the glimmering lantern had faded quite away, the minister discovered, by the faintness which came over him, that the last few moments had been a crisis of terrible anxiety, although his mind had made an involuntary effort to relieve itself by a kind of lurid playfulness.†
Chpt 12
- Yet he trembled, and turned to Hester, with an expression of doubt and anxiety in his eyes, not the less evidently betrayed, that there was a feeble smile upon his lips.†
Chpt 23 *
Definition:
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(anxiety) nervousness or worry