All 6 Uses of
gospel
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Stand up at the gospel of course.†
Chpt 5 *
- —Bloody wars, says I, I'll be in for the last gospel.†
Chpt 12
- It ill becomes him to preach that gospel.†
Chpt 14
- Black candles rise from its gospel and epistle horns.†
Chpt 15
- Yet still though his eyes were thick with sleep and sea air life was full of a host of things and coincidences of a terrible nature and it was quite within the bounds of possibility that it was not an entire fabrication though at first blush there was not much inherent probability in all the spoof he got off his chest being strictly accurate gospel.†
Chpt 16
- …inflammable doubtless (the fallen leader, that is, not the other) in his own peculiar way which she of course, woman, quickly perceived as highly likely to carve his way to fame which he almost bid fair to do till the priests and ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch adherents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country by taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that exceeded their most sanguine…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(gospel as in: gospel of the Bible) the religious teachings of Jesus
or:
one of the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that Christian's believe tell the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings