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Definition of Discerned
1. discern [v] - See also: discern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discerned
Literary usage of Discerned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller (1870)
"expression, ' Poets in their hearts discerned,' we can understand only if we make
it' have discerned' (or seen)—for otherwise it is ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"ed that I discerned something analogous to the spectacle which the New World
presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily advancing ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"But presently, when discerned day was beginning to break, a sentry in advance
on £dd Shell Hill discerned through the mist what he judged to be a Russian ..."
4. The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, with an by Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1850)
"The Testimony of the Spirit, how best discerned. number of believers except reason
did somewhat help, and BOOK in. were an ..."
5. Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897)
"At last he discerned that the thought of Lygia never left him for a moment, that
she was the motive at once of his bad actions and his good, that he cared ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"He nursed him through the small-pox in 1717; he reinforced the scanty supplies
drawn from a somi straitened home ; above all, he \ discerned and cultivated ..."
7. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"CHAPTER V NATURE UNIFIED AND MIND discerned Han's feeble When the mind has learned
to dis- Mture°f tinguish external objects and to attribute to them a ..."
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