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perceive
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The Return of the Native
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Olly, though without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely, was saved by her very simplicity from rendering them offensive.
Chpt 1 *

perceive = notice (be aware of)
She could not admit at once that she might have overestimated Wildeve, for to perceive his mediocrity now was to admit her own great folly heretofore.
Chpt 1 *

perceive = view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
The spot was, indeed, a near relation of night, and when night showed itself an apparent tendency to gravitate together could be perceived in its shades and the scene.†
Chpt 1
When he drew nearer he perceived it to be a spring van, ordinary in shape, but singular in colour, this being a lurid red.†
Chpt 1
On the door being opened she perceived at the end of the van an extemporized couch, around which was hung apparently all the drapery that the reddleman possessed, to keep the occupant of the little couch from contact with the red materials of his trade.†
Chpt 1
One inwardly saw the infinity of those combined multitudes; and perceived that each of the tiny trumpets was seized on, entered, scoured and emerged from by the wind as thoroughly as if it were as vast as a crater.†
Chpt 1
Had he approached without any covering the chances are that he would not have been perceived in the dusk; approaching thus, it was as though he burrowed underground.†
Chpt 1
He went across to her; and could almost perceive in her anxious face that this journey of hers to Wildeve was undertaken with the same object as his own to Eustacia.†
Chpt 1
The deaf Dr. Kitto was probably under the influence of a parallel fancy when he described his body as having become, by long endeavour, so sensitive to vibrations that he had gained the power of perceiving by it as by ears.†
Chpt 2
When she became cooler she perceived that many of the phases of the dream had naturally arisen out of the images and fancies of the day before.†
Chpt 2
But the concentration upon her part necessary to prevent discovery, the newness of the scene, the shine of the candles, and the confusing effect upon her vision of the ribboned visor which hid her features, left her absolutely unable to perceive who were present as spectators.†
Chpt 2
But not so depressing as something I next perceived—that my business was the idlest, vainest, most effeminate business that ever a man could be put to.†
Chpt 3
He could perceive that the curiosity which had been shown by the hair-cutting group amounted in his mother to concern.†
Chpt 3
Eustacia, who had reddened when she perceived the effect of her exclamation upon the group below, was no longer to be seen at the window, though Yeobright scanned it wistfully.†
Chpt 3
A multitude whose tendencies could be perceived, though not its essences.†
Chpt 3
In spite of Eustacia's apparent willingness to wait through the period of an unpromising engagement, till he should be established in his new pursuit, he could not but perceive at moments that she loved him rather as a visitant from a gay world to which she rightly belonged than as a man with a purpose opposed to that recent past of his which so interested her.†
Chpt 3
Thus as his sight grew accustomed to the first blinding halo kindled about him by love and beauty, Yeobright began to perceive what a strait he was in.†
Chpt 3
Any person who had known the circumstances might have perceived that Wildeve was mortified by the discovery that the matter in transit was money, and not, as he had supposed when at Blooms-End, some fancy nick-nack which only interested the two women themselves.†
Chpt 3
As their eyes grew accustomed to the darkness they perceived faint greenish points of light among the grass and fern.†
Chpt 3
He saw before him in one of the valleys the gleaming of whetted iron, and advancing, dimly perceived that the shine came from the tool of a man who was cutting furze.†
Chpt 4
But the more I see of life the more do I perceive that there is nothing particularly great in its greatest walks, and therefore nothing particularly small in mine of furze-cutting.†
Chpt 4
There is a certain degree and tone of light which tends to disturb the equilibrium of the senses, and to promote dangerously the tenderer moods; added to movement, it drives the emotions to rankness, the reason becoming sleepy and unperceiving in inverse proportion; and this light fell now upon these two from the disc of the moon.†
Chpt 4

unperceiving = not viewing in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unperceiving means not and reverses the meaning of perceiving. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
"My journey ends here for tonight, reddleman," said Yeobright as soon as he perceived her.†
Chpt 4
When customers were present she seldom showed herself, owing to her inherent dislike for the business; but perceiving that no one else was there tonight she came out.†
Chpt 4
"That is a mistake—it must have been some one else," he said slowly and testily, for he perceived that Venn's countermoves had begun again.†
Chpt 4
Retracing her steps, she came again to an open level, where she perceived at a distance a man at work.†
Chpt 4
Mrs. Yeobright strained her eyes, and at last said that she did perceive him.†
Chpt 4
From her elevated position the exhausted woman could perceive the roof of the house below, and the garden and the whole enclosure of the little domicile.†
Chpt 4
He moved a few steps in that direction, and now he perceived a recumbent figure almost close at his feet.†
Chpt 4
Presently Eustacia perceived that he was beckoning to her, and she advanced and joined him.†
Chpt 4
He did so, and retired to the door; when, however, he perceived that she did not move he came back a few steps.†
Chpt 5
They stood in silence, broken only by the crackling of the flames, till Charley, perceiving that she did not want to talk to him, moved reluctantly away.†
Chpt 5
Eustacia opened her umbrella and went out from the enclosure by the steps over the bank, after which she was beyond all danger of being perceived.†
Chpt 5
"Who are you?" said Venn, still unperceiving.†
Chpt 5

unperceiving = not viewing in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unperceiving means not and reverses the meaning of perceiving. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Here he was taken off his legs, and in swimming was carried round into the centre of the basin, where he perceived Wildeve struggling.†
Chpt 5
Those who ascended to the immediate neighbourhood of the Barrow perceived that the erect form in the centre, piercing the sky, was not really alone.†
Chpt 6

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(1) (perceive as in: perceive the system as unfair)
to view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
(2) (perceive as in: though blind, can perceive light)
to become aware of -- especially by using the senses (to see, hear, smell, feel, or taste)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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