All 3 Uses of
mundane
in
Moby Dick
- To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously, therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- …in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.†
Chpt 49-51
- And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(mundane) ordinary or lacking interest or excitement -- possibly to the point of being boring
or more rarely:
belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly