All 4 Uses of
discern
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Immediately after the elopement Adelaida Ivanovna discerned in a flash that she had no feeling for her husband but contempt.†
Chpt 1 *
- There were signs of a spiritual transformation in her, and a steadfast, fine and humble determination that nothing could shake could be discerned in her.†
Chpt 11
- But even admitting this was so, it is psychological subtlety, I suppose, that discerns that under certain circumstances I become as bloodthirsty and keen-sighted as a Caucasian eagle, while at the next I am as timid and blind as a mole.†
Chpt 12
- He looked at Alyosha as he came in with an undefined expression, but there was a shade of something like dread discernible in it.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious