All 3 Uses of
discern
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passerby was in the street.†
Chpt 1.6discernible = possible to notice or understand
- As it advanced, the mender of roads would discern without surprise, that it was a shaggy-haired man, of almost barbarian aspect, tall, in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads, grim, rough, swart, steeped in the mud and dust of many highways, dank with the marshy moisture of many low grounds, sprinkled with the thorns and leaves and moss of many byways through woods.†
Chpt 2.23discern = notice or understand something
- he could but dimly discern the others who were brought there
Chpt 3.13 *discern = see
Definition:
to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious