Both Uses of
erudite
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition,
p. 116.8 *erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.†
p. 145.1
Definition:
having or showing deep scholarly knowledge