Both Uses of
consummate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Gerty stifled a smothered exclamation and gave a nervous cough and Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact by saying that that was the benediction because just then the bell rang out from the steeple over the quiet seashore because Canon O'Hanlon was up on the altar with the veil that Father Conroy put round his shoulders giving the benediction with theā¦†
Chpt 13
- In any case he had a consummate amount of cool assurance intercepting people at that hour of the night or morning.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(consummate as in: consummate professional) perfect and complete in every respect; or having a quality to an extreme degree