4 uses
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Definition
mark by some ceremony or observation — especially the memory of something
- And it turned out to be a commemoration postcard of Joe Brady or Number One or Skin-the-Goat.Episode 7 — Aeolus (64% in)
- That the house in which he was born be ornamented with a commemorative tablet and that the thoroughfare hitherto known as Cow Parlour off Cork street be henceforth designated Boulevard Bloom.Episode 15 — Circe (29% in)
- Bloom's bodyguard distribute Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple rock, billets doux in the form of cocked hats, readymade suits, porringers of toad in the hole, bottles of Jeyes' Fluid, purchase stamps, 40 days' indulgences, spurious coins, dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, season tickets available for...Episode 15 — Circe (33% in)
- Lighted Candle in Stick borne by BLOOM Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by STEPHEN: With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?Episode 17 — Ithaca (44% in)
There are no more uses of "commemorate" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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