All 3 Uses of
proximate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks her moneybox: counted his three free moneypenny buttons, one, tloo, tlee: a doll, a boy, a sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark, she had blond ancestry, remote, a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination, lieutenant Mulvey, British navy.†
Chpt 17
- The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.†
Chpt 17
- A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.†
Chpt 17 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(proximate) closest or close in degree or order (space or time) -- especially in a chain of causes and effects
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of proximate.