The Only Use
asperity
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- "Hold thy tongue, naughty child!" answered her mother, with an asperity that she had never permitted to herself before.†
p. 168.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(asperity) harshness of manner
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In physics or geology, asperity can refer to a region of contact between two surfaces under pressure.