Both Uses of
blight
in
Moby Dick
- But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.†
Chpt 130-132blighted = extensively damaged
Definitions:
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(1)
(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Blight can more specifically refer to numerous diseases that devastate plants.