Both Uses of
discerning
in
Moby Dick
- Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.†
Chpt 7-9discernment = having good judgment or good taste and/or perceiving things not easily perceived by most people
- Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.†
Chpt 28-30 *
Definition:
showing good judgment or good taste and/or the perception of things not easily perceived by most people