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Definition of Discerners
1. discerner [n] - See also: discerner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discerners
Literary usage of Discerners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"How unequal discerners of truth they are, and openly exposed unto error, will
first appear from their unqualified intellectuals, unable to umpire the ..."
2. Sunday Evenings in the College Chapel: Sermons to Young Men by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1911)
"Thus in every age there are time-servers and time-discerners. ... And then in
every age there are the time-discerners, the people who dare to have faith in ..."
3. The Classical Journal (1819)
"... 5. if it be better to put discerners of than knowing, which I question, because
one would translate the same phrase in the same context, ..."
4. The Library of the Old English Prose Writers by Thomas Fuller (1831)
"How unequal discerners of truth they are, and openly exposed unto error, will
first appear from their unqualified intellectuals, unable to umpire the ..."
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