All 4 Uses of
veritable
in
Moby Dick
- Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.†
Chpt Extr *veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
- In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.†
Chpt 67-69
- poor Tashtego—like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!†
Chpt 76-78
- A veritable witness have you hitherto been, Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone; the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters, ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and cheeseries in his bowels.†
Chpt 100-102
Definition:
used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing