All 4 Uses
intangible
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things; or by whatever other intangible circumstance was then, as now, sufficient to bestow, on some persons, what others might seek in vain; or because Hester really filled a gap which must otherwise have remained vacant; it is certain that she had ready and fairly requited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with her needle.†
p. 77.3
- Whenever that look appeared in her wild, bright, deeply black eyes, it invested her with a strange remoteness and intangibility: it was as if she were hovering in the air, and might vanish, like a glimmering light that comes we know not whence and goes we know not whither.†
p. 86.3
- This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.†
p. 194.1
- Pearl either saw and responded to her mother's feelings, or herself felt the remoteness and intangibility that had fallen around the minister.†
p. 223.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(intangible) unable to be physically touched (existing but not material or concrete); or something that is hard to identify
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)