All 5 Uses of
substantiate
in
Moby Dick
- In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be wholly without prospect of a meeting.†
Chpt 43-45
- He substantiates every word.†
Chpt 43-45
- Lionel then goes on to impute the shock to an earthquake, and seems to substantiate the imputation by stating that a great earthquake, somewhere about that time, did actually do great mischief along the Spanish land.†
Chpt 43-45
- I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but cannot, owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against whalemen, and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds, might be considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said of the Frenchman's two whales.†
Chpt 91-93
Definition:
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(substantiate as in: substantiated by the report) provide evidence that proves or supports an argument or theory