Both Uses of
tantamount
in
Moby Dick
- For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(tantamount) being essentially equal to something