Both Uses of
tepid
in
Moby Dick
- Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- No! hands him, ye gods! hands him a cup of tepid ginger and water!†
Chpt 70-72
Definition:
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(tepid) less heat (or enthusiasm) than might be expected