All 3 Uses of
lethargic
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Lethargy.†
Chpt 5lethargy = lack of energy; or (often in historic literature) a state of sleep
- Lethargy then.†
Chpt 5 *
- ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy of the stars.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(lethargic) lacking energy
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, lethargy can refer to inactivity or even a state of unconsciousness.