All 3 Uses of
scrutiny
in
Billy Budd
- And here be it submitted that apparently going to corroborate the doctrine of man's fall, a doctrine now popularly ignored, it is observable that where certain virtues pristine and unadulterate peculiarly characterize anybody in the external uniform of civilization, they will upon scrutiny seem not to be derived from custom or convention, but rather to be out of keeping with these, as if indeed exceptionally transmitted from a period prior to Cain's city and citified man.†
Chpt 2scrutiny = careful look or inspection
- Claggart—-himself for the time liberated from the other's scrutiny—steadily...
Chpt 18 *
- —Now, Master—at-arms, tell this man to his face what you told of him to me;" and stood prepared to scrutinize the mutually confronting visages.†
Chpt 19scrutinize = to look at very carefullystandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
Definition:
careful examination of something