Definition of Discovering

1. Verb. (present participle of discover) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Discovering

1. discover [v] - See also: discover

Lexicographical Neighbors of Discovering

discovenants
discover
discoverability
discoverable
discoverably
discovered
discovered-check
discovered check
discoveree
discoverees
discoverer
discoverers
discoverest
discovereth
discoveries
discovering (current term)
discoverment
discoverments
discovers
discovert
discoverts
discoverture
discovertures
discovery
discovery informatics
discovery request
discovery requests
discovre
discowear
discredit

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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