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obviate
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The Scarlet Letter
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- Finally, all other difficulties being obviated, woman cannot take advantage of these preliminary reforms until she herself shall have undergone a still mightier change, in which, perhaps, the ethereal essence, wherein she has her truest life, will be found to have evaporated.†
p. 153.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(obviate) eliminate or prevent from happening
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)