Definition of Discernments

1. Noun. (plural of discernment) ¹

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Definition of Discernments

1. discernment [n] - See also: discernment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Discernments

discern'd
discernability
discernable
discernance
discerned
discerner
discerners
discerneth
discernibility
discernible
discernibleness
discernibly
discerning
discerningly
discernment
discernments (current term)
discerns
discerp
discerped
discerpible
discerping
discerps
discerption
discerptive
discession
discharge
discharge lamp
discharge of dredged material
discharge of fill material
discharge pipe

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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