Both Uses of
procreate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- the exhortator and admonisher of his semblables and to tremble lest what had in the past been by the nation excellently commenced might be in the future not with similar excellence accomplished if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs to that thither of profundity that that one was audacious excessively who would have the hardihood to rise affirming that no more odious offence can for anyone be than to oblivious neglect to consign that evangel simultaneously command and promise which on all mortals with prophecy of abundance or with diminution's menace that exalted of reiteratedly procreating function ever irrevocably enjoined?†
Chpt 14
- From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.†
Chpt 17 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(procreate) to reproduce (children or offspring)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, procreate can mean to produce something other than children or offspring.