The Only Use of
mediocrity
in
Moby Dick
- Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(mediocrity) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding