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Definition of Discovering
1. discover [v] - See also: discover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discovering
Literary usage of Discovering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... and he had no means of discovering the same, nor had his assignor any means
of discovering the same until the same were disclosed upon the examination ..."
2. The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray (1817)
"... to exercise their pupils in discovering imd explaining the emphatic words,
and the proper tones and pauses, of every portion assigned them to read, ..."
3. Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas (1878)
"... IN discovering THE RETREAT OF PORTHOS, PERCEIVES THAT WEALTH DOES NOT PRODUCE
HAPPINESS. ... discovering ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"... (2) with a view to discovering the law involved, to determine the partial
pressures of the ternary mixtures of a suitable set of three substances, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and the people seem to have enjoyed the spectacle, without discovering, in
such a treatment of royal captives,- any tiling that was repugnant to the ..."
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