All 3 Uses of
unwitting
in
Moby Dick
- But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules.†
Chpt 94-96
- Unwittingly here a secret has been divulged, which perhaps might more properly, in set way, have been disclosed before.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
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(unwitting) not intentional (without knowledge)