Both Uses of
waver
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure.†
p. 162.3 *wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- He still walked onward, if that movement could be so described, which rather resembled the wavering effort of an infant, with its mother's arms in view, outstretched to tempt him forward.†
p. 234.4
Definition:
to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak