Both Uses of
sagacious
in
Billy Budd
- They may add, too, that at Trafalgar it was in effect nothing less than a challenge to death; and death came; and that but for his bravado the victorious Admiral might possibly have survived the battle; and so, instead of having his sagacious dying injunctions overruled by his immediate successor in command, he himself, when the contest was decided, might have brought his shattered fleet to anchor, a proceeding which might have averted the deplorable loss of life by shipwreck in theā¦†
Chpt 4
- ...he will direct a cool judgment sagacious and sound.
Chpt 11 *sagacious = wise
Definition:
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(sagacious) wise -- especially through long experience and thoughtfulness