Both Uses of
affidavit
in
Moby Dick
- CHAPTER 45 The Affidavit.†
Chpt 43-45 *
- I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager (I honour him for a veteran), but in so important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of the Peace.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(affidavit) a written statement made under oath