All 3 Uses of
discern
in
Dune
- Paul stared into the tent's darkness at the dimly discerned movements of his mother revealed by the manual's glowtab.†
Book 1 *
- The man squatting across from Hawat was a Fremen who had come across the sink in the first light of false dawn, skittering over the sand, blending into the dunes, his movements barely discernible.†
Book 2
- Hawat discerned movement near the opposite cliff—flitting blurs of tan on tan.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious