2 uses
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Definition
capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) — sometimes specifically to have legal capability
- I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter.Episode 16 — Eumaeus (38% in)
- That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.Episode 17 — Ithaca (43% in)
There are no more uses of "competent" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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