All 4 Uses

sage
in
The Scarlet Letter
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But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and disentangling its mesh of good and evil, than the sages of rigid aspect towards whom Hester Prynne now turned her face.
p. 61.5 *

sages = wise people
If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this.
p. 69.8
They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage.†
p. 61.4
Or, as is more thy nature, be a scholar and a sage among the wisest and the most renowned of the cultivated world.†
p. 184.6 *

Definitions:

(1) (sage as in: sage advice)
profound wisdom; or one known for being wise
(2) (sage as in: the growing sage)
a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush

or: the color of such plants (a shade of green with some hint of gray)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)