All 3 Uses of
discretion
in
Moby Dick
- How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?"†
Chpt 49-51 *
- The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.†
Chpt 52-54
Definitions:
-
(discretion as in: Parental discretion advised.) good judgment or good taste
-
(discretion as in: It is within her discretion.) the right to make a decision (and perhaps accompanying good judgment)