All 4 Uses of
devoid
in
The Scarlet Letter
- each of whom was a Custom-House officer in his day, as well as I. It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.†
p. 24.3
- It was his genuine impulse to adore the truth, and to reckon all things shadow-like, and utterly devoid of weight or value, that had not its divine essence as the life within their life.†
p. 96.7 *
- Were I an atheist—a man devoid of conscience—a wretch with coarse and brutal instincts—I might have found peace long ere now.†
p. 129.3
- —not wholly devoid of an idea that he might behold an evil spirit.†
p. 149.9
Definition:
completely without (lacking)