2 meanings, 20 uses
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1 —3 uses as in:
wrought iron
Definition
worked — as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating
- He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.Chapter 4 -- The Interview (80% in)
wrought = worked (crafted)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- When the young woman—the mother of this child—stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress.Chapter 2 -- The Market Place (35% in)
- Her attire, which indeed, she had wrought for the occasion in prison, and had modelled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity.Chapter 2 -- The Market Place (45% in)
wrought = worked (crafted)
wrought = worked (crafted)
There are no more uses of "wrought" flagged with this meaning in The Scarlet Letter.
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2 —1 use as in:
the damage she has wrought
Definition
caused to happen or occurred as a consequence
- She recognises, believe me, the solemn miracle which God hath wrought in the existence of that child.Chapter 8 -- The Elf-child and the Minister (72% in)
wrought = caused
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exact meaning not specified
- The minister's own will, and Hester's will, and the fate that grew between them, had wrought this transformation.Chapter 20 -- The Minister in a Maze (27% in)
- It had been wrought, as was easy to perceive, with wonderful skill of needlework; and the stitch (as I am assured by ladies conversant with such mysteries) gives evidence of a now forgotten art, not to be discovered even by the process of picking out the threads.Introductory (67% in)
- Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power, and were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order.Chapter 5 -- Hester at her Needle (41% in)
- Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.Chapter 5 -- Hester at her Needle (48% in)
- But whether from pride or resignation, or a feeling that her penance might best be wrought out by this unutterable pain, she resisted the impulse, and sat erect, pale as death, looking sadly into little Pearl's wild eyes.Chapter 6 -- Pearl (85% in)
- The mother herself—as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form—had carefully wrought out the similitude, lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity to create an analogy between the object of her affection and the emblem of her guilt and torture.Chapter 7 -- The Governor's Hall (30% in)
- In answer to this query, a rumour gained ground—and however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people—that Heaven had wrought an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic from a German university bodily through the air and setting him down at the door of Mr. Dimmesdale's study!Chapter 9 -- The Leech (32% in)
- None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty, even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch's robe.Chapter 13 -- Another View of Hester (22% in)
- All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.Chapter 14 -- Hester and the Physician (19% in)
- She marvelled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him!Chapter 15 -- Hester and Pearl (19% in)
- Had seven long years, under the torture of the scarlet letter, inflicted so much of misery and wrought out no repentance?Chapter 15 -- Hester and Pearl (28% in)
- When the dreary change was wrought, she extended her hand to Pearl.Chapter 19 -- The Child at the Brookside (76% in)
- There were human beings enough, and enough of highly wrought and symphonious feeling to produce that more impressive sound than the organ tones of the blast, or the thunder, or the roar of the sea; even that mighty swell of many voices, blended into one great voice by the universal impulse which makes likewise one vast heart out of the many.Chapter 23 -- The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter (28% in)
- This earthly faintness, was, in their view, only another phase of the minister's celestial strength; nor would it have seemed a miracle too high to be wrought for one so holy, had he ascended before their eyes, waxing dimmer and brighter, and fading at last into the light of heaven!Chapter 23 -- The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter (46% in)
- Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.Chapter 24 -- Conclusion (50% in)
- There were trifles too, little ornaments, beautiful tokens of a continual remembrance, that must have been wrought by delicate fingers at the impulse of a fond heart.Chapter 24 -- Conclusion (70% in)
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