Both Uses of
vicissitudes
in
The Scarlet Letter
- 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. 15.2 *vicissitude = change -- especially an unanticipated difficulty
- So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.†
p. 144.1
Definition:
changes -- especially unanticipated difficulties