All 3 Uses of
exile
in
Moby Dick
- aye, he did beget ye, ye young exiled royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come.†
Chpt 40-42 *exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
- As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns.†
Chpt 40-42
- Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be