All 3 Uses of
passive
in
Moby Dick
- In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.†
Chpt 49-51 *
- But though the Lakeman had induced the seamen to adopt this sort of passiveness in their conduct, he kept his own counsel (at least till all was over) concerning his own proper and private revenge upon the man who had stung him in the ventricles of his heart.†
Chpt 52-54
- Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.†
Chpt 91-93
Definition:
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(passive) accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly