Both Uses of
incantation
in
Moby Dick
- But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous—why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.†
Chpt 40-42
- So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.†
Chpt 46-48 *
Definition:
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(incantation) words believed to have a magical effect when they are said aloud; or the saying of such words