The Scarlet Letter II: The Market-Place

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  1. physiognomy
    the human face
    "the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand"
  2. augur
    predict from an omen
    "the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand"
  3. autumnal
    of or characteristic of or occurring in the fall
    "autumnal matron"
  4. sumptuary
    regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior
    "greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony"
  5. mien
    a person's appearance, manner, or demeanor
    "so picturesque was her attire and mien"
  6. contumely
    rude language intended to offend or hurt
    "she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venemous stabs of public contumely"
  7. phantasmagoric
    characterized by fantastic and incongruous imagery
    "Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit, to relieve itself, by the exibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality."
  8. remonstrance
    the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
    "her mother's too...which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter's pathway"
Created on Thu Oct 14 02:39:38 EDT 2010 (updated Thu Oct 14 12:37:14 EDT 2010)

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