Both Uses of
abortion
in
Moby Dick
- The Albino is as well made as other men—has no substantive deformity—and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion.†
Chpt 40-42
- Perhaps he got it as his scientific predecessor in the same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing.†
Chpt 55-57 *
Definition:
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(abortion as in: have an abortion) intentional ending of pregnancy by killing and removing the fetus or embryo