The Only Use of
democratic
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, democratic refers to the United States political party, the Democrats whose main political rivals are the Republicans.