Both Uses of
privation
in
Moby Dick
- For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.†
Chpt 52-54 *
- Forty years of continual whaling! forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time! forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!†
Chpt 130-132
Definition:
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(privation) lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner