All 6 Uses of
temperament
in
The Scarlet Letter
- She had borne that morning all that nature could endure; and as her temperament was not of the order that escapes from too intense suffering by a swoon, her spirit could only shelter itself beneath a stony crust of insensibility, while the faculties of animal life remained entire.†
p. 65.5temperament = usual mood and tendencies
- At this wild and singular appeal, which indicated that Hester Prynne's situation had provoked her to little less than madness, the young minister at once came forward, pale, and holding his hand over his heart, as was his custom whenever his peculiarly nervous temperament was thrown into agitation.†
p. 105.3
- Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man.†
p. 119.1
- He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.†
p. 123.3 *
- Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood.†
p. 188.7
- Or perchance his sensitive temperament was invigorated by the loud and piercing music that swelled heaven-ward, and uplifted him on its ascending wave.†
p. 222.8