Both Uses of
latent
in
Billy Budd
- Yet even as to him he was not without some latent misgiving, for withal he was an extremely goodnatured man, an enjoyer of his dinner, a sound sleeper, and inclined to obesity, a man who tho' he would always maintain his manhood in battle might not prove altogether reliable in a moral dilemma involving aught of the tragic.†
Chpt 21latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- Captain Vere in the end may have developed the passion sometimes latent under an exterior stoical or indifferent.
Chpt 22 *