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Definition of Discernments
1. discernment [n] - See also: discernment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discernments
Literary usage of Discernments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle: With Personal by Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson (1881)
"... at once subtle and large-hearted, are- the highest evidences of a true Christian
wisdom,, and are among the many proofs of good and great discernments ..."
2. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"Recognition is the common name of the discernments supposed by those objects.
... It signifies that the object has been either object of many discernments ..."
3. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"Recognition is the* common name of the discernments supposed by those objects.
... It signifies that the object has been either object of many discernments ..."
4. Christian Theology by Milton Valentine (1906)
"If the race or tribe is low and undeveloped, or brutalized, the religious
discernments are crude and indistinct In the worst ignorance and barbarisms, ..."
5. Theoretical Ethics by Milton Valentine (1897)
"The conscience—resting in the general rational intelligence and rising into the
peculiar discernments and judgments which mark it—is an- The Conscience. ..."
6. Talks to Young Men by Charles Henry Parkhurst (1897)
"There is as much difference among men in the distinctness of their religious
discernments as in that of their intellectual or artistic discernments. ..."
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