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Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.

—Ulysses

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Pertaining to or connected with the apogee: as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee. Also apogeic.

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Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity. — Ulysses
His head was back as if his throat were open to the stroke of her words, but there was that growing in his face which was enormous, translucent, even apogean. — Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy