All 4 Uses of
commemorate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- And it turned out to be a commemoration postcard of Joe Brady or Number One or Skin-the-Goat.†
Chpt 7 *commemoration = the act of marking by some ceremony or observation
- 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.†
Chpt 15commemorative = in honor of
- 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 all tramlines, coupons of the royal and privileged Hungarian lottery, penny dinner counters, cheap reprints of the World's Twelve Worst Books: Froggy And Fritz (politic), Care of the Baby (infantilic), 50 Meals†
Chpt 15commemoration = the act of marking by some ceremony or observation
- Lighted Candle in Stick borne by BLOOM Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by STEPHEN: With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?†
Chpt 17commemorative = in honor of
Definition:
to honor or remember someone or something -- especially through a ceremony or symbol