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Definition
loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision
or:
inability to act or make a decision
- ...we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive...Chapters 7-9 — The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (12% in)
- This was still more strangely evinced by those of their number, who, completely paralysed as it were, helplessly floated like water-logged dismantled ships on the sea.Chapters 85-87 — The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (68% in)
There are no more uses of "paralysis" in Moby Dick.
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