All 7 Uses of
tinged
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition through and through with a sable tinge.†
p. 18.7tinge = a slight amount; or to contain a slight amount
- It throws its unobtrusive tinge throughout the room, with a faint ruddiness upon the walls and ceiling, and a reflected gleam upon the polish of the furniture.†
p. 35.5
- But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.†
p. 74.8
- They averred that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth, tinged in an earthly dye-pot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the night-time.†
p. 82.0tinged = with a slight amount (often of color)
- Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.†
p. 114.8
- Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood.†
p. 188.7tinge = a slight amount; or to contain a slight amount
- But we perhaps exaggerate the gray or sable tinge, which undoubtedly characterized the mood and manners of the age.†
p. 214.9 *
Definition:
with a slight amount
(If an amount of what is not clear from context, it is typically of color.)
(If an amount of what is not clear from context, it is typically of color.)