The Only Use
fidelity
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- Without disputing a truth so momentous, we must be allowed to consider this version of Mr. Dimmesdale's story as only an instance of that stubborn fidelity with which a man's friends—and especially a clergyman's—will sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the mid-day sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust.†
p. 241.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(fidelity as in: fidelity to her partner) faithfulness -- especially exclusiveness of sexual partners
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(2)
(fidelity as in: fidelity of the reproduction) accuracy with which something is copied or converted
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)