All 4 Uses
discern
in
Wuthering Heights
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- As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.†
p. 17.6 *discerned = noticed something that is not obvious
- Mrs. Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression.†
p. 46.9
- We discerned Linton watching at the same spot he had selected before.†
p. 192.9
- I knew no living thing in flesh and blood was by; but, as certainly as you perceive the approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it cannot be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there: not under me, but on the earth.†
p. 210.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)