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inextricable
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.†
p. 137.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(inextricable) impossible to extract, disentangle, or avoid; or hopelessly intricate
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)