Both Uses of
discriminate
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- And so Our Lady, shocked and weeping, falls before the throne of God and begs for mercy for all in hell—for all she has seen there, indiscriminately.†
Chpt 5 *
- I say nothing about medicine: science, I am told, may go astray: the doctors were not able to discriminate between the counterfeit and the real.†
Chpt 12 *
Definitions:
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(discriminate as in: discriminating taste) to recognize or perceive differences -- especially fine distinctions
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(discriminate as in: suffered discrimination) to treat people of different groups differently -- especially unfair treatment due to race, religion or gender