Both Uses of
transient
in
Moby Dick
- One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.†
Chpt 43-45 *
- It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief officer of his ship.†
Chpt 109-111
Definition:
lasting a short time
or:
one who stays for only a short time
or:
one who stays for only a short time