All 7 Uses of
spectacle
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Sagaciously under their spectacles, did they peep into the holds of vessels.†
p. 16.7 *
- The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.
p. 41.7spectacle = event that attracts attention
- When such personages could constitute a part of the spectacle, without risking the majesty, or reverence of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning.
p. 42.0
- Peradventure the guilty one stands looking on at this sad spectacle, unknown of man, and forgetting that God sees him.
p. 45.8
- Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.
p. 55.2 *
- Alas! if he discern such sinfulness in his own white soul, what horrid spectacle would he behold in thine or mine!
p. 97.3spectacle = thing that attracts attention
- We doubt whether any marked event, for good or evil, ever befell New England, from its settlement down to revolutionary times, of which the inhabitants had not been previously warned by some spectacle of its nature.
p. 104.1spectacle = event that attracts attention
Definitions:
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(1)
(spectacle as in: made a spectacle of herself) a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
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(2)
(spectacle as in: wore spectacles) an optical lens (generally in pairs as eyeglasses)