All 5 Uses of
discern
in
Bleak House
- At first they were faintly discernible in the mist, and above them the later stars still glimmered.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Thus the day cometh, whether or no. And the day may discern, even with its dim London eye, that the court has been up all night.†
Chpt 31-33
- The perspective was so long and so darkened by leaves, and the shadows of the branches on the ground made it so much more intricate to the eye, that at first I could not discern what figure it was.†
Chpt 34-36
- Introduced into the back shop by Mr. Smallweed the younger, they, fresh from the sunlight, can at first see nothing save darkness and shadows; but they gradually discern the elder Mr. Smallweed seated in his chair upon the brink of a well or grave of waste-paper, the virtuous Judy groping therein like a female sexton, and Mrs. Smallweed on the level ground in the vicinity snowed up in a heap of paper fragments, print, and manuscript which would appear to be the accumulated compliments…†
Chpt 37-39
- Against the mouldering wall by which they stood, there was a bill, on which I could discern the words, "Found Drowned"; and this and an inscription about drags possessed me with the awful suspicion shadowed forth in our visit to that place.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious