Both Uses of
portent
in
The Scarlet Letter
- But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?†
p. 106.7 *
- We have thrown all the light we could acquire upon the portent, and would gladly, now that it has done its office, erase its deep print out of our own brain, where long meditation has fixed it in very undesirable distinctness.†
p. 171.5
Definition:
a sign of something about to happen