All 3 Uses of
deify
in
Moby Dick
- so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within;†
Chpt 40-42deified = treated as a desirable god
- And this reminds me that had the great Sperm Whale been known to the young Orient World, he would have been deified by their child-magian thoughts.†
Chpt 79-81 *
- They deified the crocodile of the Nile, because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue, or at least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of protrusion.†
Chpt 79-81
Definition:
treat as a god