All 3 Uses of
discern
in
Great Expectations
- It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces.†
Chpt 11 *
- Under the circumstances, I felt that Joe could hardly fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger to be put into the black velvet coach; therefore, I said nothing of him.†
Chpt 12
- They passed by under the window, looking at nothing else, and they did not go down to the landing-place which I could discern to be empty, but struck across the marsh in the direction of the Nore.†
Chpt 54
Definition:
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(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious