Both Uses of
paternity
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Paternity may be a legal fiction.†
Chpt 9 *
- The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the clown's) papa.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(paternity as in: use DNA to establish paternity) the state of being a father; or related to fatherhood