Both Uses of
anomaly
in
Moby Dick
- Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.†
Chpt 88-90
- She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.†
Chpt 94-96 *
Definition:
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(anomaly) something outside of the range of what is normally expected