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1 —as in:
perceive the system as unfair

Definition

to view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion

She finally perceived the futility of her protest.

perceived = viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The company wants to make sure it's low price is not perceived as implying low quality.

perceived = viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion

She perceives more risk in the trip than he does.
When my father was in my life, wrestling me for control of that life, I perceived him with the eyes of a soldier, through a fog of conflict.
Tara Westover -- Educated

perceived = viewed (in a certain way)

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
George Orwell -- 1984

perceived = understood (saw in a certain way)

When groups perceive that it's in their interest to work hard and achieve things, members of that group outperform other similarly situated individuals.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

perceive = understand (see in a certain way)

He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father's moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

perceived = saw (in a certain way) so as to form a belief

You must have observed his attentions; and though you always received them very properly (I have no accusation to make on that head), I never perceived them to be unpleasant to you.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

perceived = saw (in a certain way) or believed

Even by the standards of his honor-conscious culture, he was unusually consumed by his perceived humiliation, and was intent upon inflicting the same pain on the men under his power.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

perceived = seen in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion

He's had several experiences of perceiving himself as he was before the experiment—as a separate and distinct individual still functioning in his consciousness—as if the old Charlie were struggling for control of the body—
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

perceiving = viewing things in a certain way

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2 —as in:
though blind, can perceive light

Definition

to become aware of — especially by using the senses (to see, hear, smell, feel, or taste)

I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon.

perceive = see (become aware of)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

It's one thing to perceive something with the senses and another to understand its importance.

perceive = become aware of

In short, we can only have inexact conceptions of things we perceive with our senses.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

perceive = become aware of

Medea had said she did not know if those slaves in her father's halls could perceive what happened to them.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

perceive = have awareness of (understand)

Suddenly he perceived the word for it: sunshine.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

perceived = became aware of

I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

perceived = saw (became aware)

But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

perceive = see

Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

perceived = saw (became aware of)

Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

perceive = see

I had started on a path of awareness, had perceived something elemental about my brother, my father, myself. I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant.
Tara Westover -- Educated

perceived = become aware of

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