Both Uses of
inauspicious
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
p. 36.9inauspicious = not promising
- Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.
p. 68.9 *inauspicious = unfavorable
Definition:
showing signs that things will go poorly