All 6 Uses of
impious
in
Moby Dick
- What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave pedlars, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe.†
Chpt 25-27
- I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- …but the subtle insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background (for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long…†
Chpt 46-48
- I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy.†
Chpt 82-84
- The fellow's impious!†
Chpt 106-108
- Oh, oh,—Impiety and blasphemy to hunt him more!†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(impious) not pious; i.e., lacking reverence for a god