All 11 Uses
perceive
in
The Turn of the Screw
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- I perceived an agitation of the window blind,
Chpt All *perceived = saw (became aware of)
- I perceived within half an hour that she was so glad—stout, simple, plain, clean, wholesome woman—as to be positively on her guard against showing it too much.†
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- My candle, under a bold flourish, went out, and I perceived, by the uncovered window, that the yielding dusk of earliest morning rendered it unnecessary.†
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- Flights of fancy gave place, in her mind, to a steady fireside glow, and I had already begun to perceive how, with the development of the conviction that—as time went on without a public accident—our young things could, after all, look out for themselves, she addressed her greatest solicitude to the sad case presented by their instructress.†
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- It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other—for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended—the doors we had indiscreetly opened.†
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- I could feel in him how he already, from my at first finding nothing to reply, perceived the advantage he had gained.†
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- I perceived quickly enough that I could make, to this inquiry, no answer that would not involve something of a sacrifice of my employer.†
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- Instead of gaily denouncing and caressing me, they made no allusion to my having failed them, and I was left, for the time, on perceiving that she too said nothing, to study Mrs. Grose's odd face.†
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- This was why I had now given to Mrs. Grose's steps so marked a direction—a direction that made her, when she perceived it, oppose a resistance that showed me she was freshly mystified.†
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- I now perceived still more how she had been beating about the bush and how weary at last it had made her.†
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- If I had counted on what it would give me to find myself alone with Miles, I speedily perceived, at least, that it would give me a measure.†
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Definitions:
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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
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(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)