All 4 Uses of
morbid
in
Moby Dick
- Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.†
Chpt 16-18
- For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.†
Chpt 40-42
- Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(morbid as in: a morbid curiosity) suggesting death and decay; or an unhealthy interest in disturbing thoughts -- such as of death or cruelty