All 3 Uses of
immutable
in
Moby Dick
- Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Peleg.
Chpt 16-18immutableness = quality of being unchangeable
- For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.†
Chpt 34-36
- This whole act's immutably decreed.†
Chpt 133-135 *
Definition:
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(immutable) unchangeable