All 3 Uses of
discerning
in
Wuthering Heights
- I thought as I lay there, with my head against that table leg, and my eyes dimly discerning the grey square of the window, that I was enclosed in the oak-panelled bed at home; and my heart ached with some great grief which, just waking, I could not recollect.†
Chpt 12
- But, at last, I think she begins to know me: I don't perceive the silly smiles and grimaces that provoked me at first; and the senseless incapability of discerning that I was in earnest when I gave her my opinion of her infatuation and herself.†
Chpt 14 *
- What was filling him with dread we had no means of discerning; but there he was, powerless under its gripe, and any addition seemed capable of shocking him into idiotcy.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(discerning) showing good judgment or good taste and/or the perception of things not easily perceived by most people