Both Uses of
immaterial
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Reminiscences, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school-days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her, intermingled with recollections of whatever was gravest in her subsequent life; one picture precisely as vivid as another; as if all were of similar importance, or all alike a play.
p. 55.1immaterial = not important, or not relevant
- This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
p. 78.5 *immaterial = unimportant
Definition:
not important, or not relevant
"Immaterial" is a commonly heard objection to introducing evidence or an argument in court.