All 3 Uses of
discerning
in
Persuasion
- His tone, his expressions, his choice of subject, his knowing where to stop; it was all the operation of a sensible, discerning mind.†
Chpt 15 *
- Mr Elliot talks unreservedly to Colonel Wallis of his views on you, which said Colonel Wallis, I imagine to be, in himself, a sensible, careful, discerning sort of character; but Colonel Wallis has a very pretty silly wife, to whom he tells things which he had better not, and he repeats it all to her.†
Chpt 21
- There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal, and Lady Russell had been less gifted in this part of understanding than her young friend.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(discerning) showing good judgment or good taste and/or the perception of things not easily perceived by most people