The Only Use
peremptory
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- His first care was given to the child, whose cries, indeed, as she lay writhing on the trundle-bed, made it of peremptory necessity to postpone all other business to the task of soothing her.†
p. 67.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(peremptory) not allowing contradiction or refusal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)