Both Uses
martial
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- The brave soldier had already numbered, nearly or quite, his three-score years and ten, and was pursuing the remainder of his earthly march, burdened with infirmities which even the martial music of his own spirit-stirring recollections could do little towards lightening.†
p. 20.8 *
- Its ranks were filled with gentlemen who felt the stirrings of martial impulse, and sought to establish a kind of College of Arms, where, as in an association of Knights Templars, they might learn the science, and, so far as peaceful exercise would teach them, the practices of war.†
p. 221.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(martial) relating to war, the military, or fighting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)