The Only Use of
meager
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.†
p. 48.0meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
Definitions:
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(1)
(meager) lacking in quantity or quality
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.