Both Uses of
anonymous
in
Moby Dick
- They may celebrate as they will the heroes of Exploring Expeditions, your Cooks, your Krusensterns; but I say that scores of anonymous Captains have sailed out of Nantucket, that were as great, and greater than your Cook and your Krusenstern.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- For like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my Lord Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower; and so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the world; every baby an exotic.†
Chpt 88-90
Definition:
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(anonymous as in: an anonymous author) an unknown person, or of an unknown person -- such as an unknown author, or donation of an unknown person