Both Uses
vicissitudes
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- For upwards of twenty years before this epoch, the independent position of the Collector had kept the Salem Custom-House out of the whirlpool of political vicissitude, which makes the tenure of office generally so fragile.†
p. 13.9 *vicissitude = change -- especially an unanticipated difficulty
- So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.†
p. 200.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(vicissitudes) changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)