All 3 Uses of
incognito
in
Lord Jim
- His incognito, which had as many holes as a sieve, was not meant to hide a personality but a fact.†
Chpt 1 *
- When the fact broke through the incognito he would leave suddenly the seaport where he happened to be at the time and go to another—generally farther east.†
Chpt 1
- Afterwards, when his keen perception of the Intolerable drove him away for good from seaports and white men, even into the virgin forest, the Malays of the jungle village, where he had elected to conceal his deplorable faculty, added a word to the monosyllable of his incognito.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(incognito) with identity hidden -- such as via a disguise or false name