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Definition
closest or close in degree or order (space or time) — especially in a chain of causes and effects
- A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.Episode 17 — Ithaca (97% in)
- 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.Episode 17 — Ithaca (37% in)
- 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.Episode 17 — Ithaca (53% in)
There are no more uses of "proximate" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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