Both Uses of
forsake
in
Moby Dick
- Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat itself.†
Chpt 88-90
- Forty years of continual whaling! forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time! forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!†
Chpt 130-132 *
Definition:
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(forsake) to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place