Both Uses of
emolument
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …is difficult in being said which the discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that all hardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the copiously opulent but also for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an inconsiderable emolument was provided.†
Chpt 14
- Added to which of course would be the pecuniary emolument by no means to be sneezed at, going hand in hand with his tuition fees.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(emolument) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment -- usually in the form of wages or fees