Both Uses of
discriminate
in
Mansfield Park
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or (smiling) of something else.
Chpt 11indiscriminately = without recognition of differencesstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscriminately means not and reverses the meaning of discriminately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination.
Chpt 37 *discrimination = ability to recognize fine distinctions
Definition:
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(discriminate as in: discriminating taste) to recognize or perceive differences -- especially fine distinctions