Both Uses of
New World
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World.†
p. 45.8 *
- So Pearl—the elf child—the demon offspring, as some people up to that epoch persisted in considering her—became the richest heiress of her day in the New World.†
p. 243.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(New World as in: Columbus's voyage to the New World) the Americas (North, South, and Central with nearby islands) (also known as the Western Hemisphere -- which was new to Europe in the 16th century)
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, new world can refer to the non-specific meaning of the most basic sense of the words.