All 8 Uses of
solicit
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- George Lidwell, suave, solicited, held a lydiahand.†
Chpt 11
- A most romantic incident occurred when a handsome young Oxford graduate, noted for his chivalry towards the fair sex, stepped forward and, presenting his visiting card, bankbook and genealogical tree, solicited the hand of the hapless young lady, requesting her to name the day, and was accepted on the spot.†
Chpt 12
- If you don't answer when they solicit must be horrible for them till they harden.†
Chpt 13
- Streetwalking and soliciting.†
Chpt 15 *
- Intimacy did not occur and the offence complained of by Driscoll, that her virtue was solicited, was not repeated.†
Chpt 15
- Unsolicited testimonials for Professor Waldmann's wonderful chest exuber.†
Chpt 15unsolicited = given without a requeststandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsolicited means not and reverses the meaning of solicited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- —It beats me, Mr Bloom confided to Stephen, medically I am speaking, how a wretched creature like that from the Lock hospital reeking with disease can be barefaced enough to solicit or how any man in his sober senses, if he values his health in the least.†
Chpt 16
- With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focussing his gaze on a large dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
to ask for something, or to try to sell something