All 14 Uses of
discern
in
Ben Hur
- Such, my brothers, was the religion of the first family; such was the religion of our father Mizraim, who could not have been blind to the formula of creation, nowhere so discernible as in the first faith and the earliest worship.†
Chpt 1.5discernible = possible to notice or understand
- The thoughtful reader of these pages has ere this discerned enough to know that the young Jew in disposition was gentle even to womanliness—a result that seldom fails the habit of loving and being loved.†
Chpt 2.6discerned = noticed something that is not obvious
- Every rib in the round body was discernible; yet the leanness was the healthful reduction so strained after in the palaestrae.†
Chpt 3.2discernible = possible to notice or understand
- Night fell, yet Ben-Hur could discern no change.†
Chpt 3.4 *discern = notice or understand something
- Still farther away he could discern moving specks, which he thought might be ships in flight or pursuit, or they might be white birds a-wing.†
Chpt 3.5
- Once only he awoke to a momentary interest, and that was when some one pointed out the Grove of Daphne, discernible from a bend in the river.†
Chpt 4.1discernible = possible to notice or understand
- Or was it something in fact, something on the surface, discernible to every-day wakeful senses?†
Chpt 4.6
- As a rule he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect—a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.†
Chpt 4.17discern = notice or understand something
- As the two thus confronted each other in approved position, there was no discernible inequality between them; on the contrary, they were as like as brothers.†
Chpt 5.16discernible = possible to notice or understand
- Somewhat later they were discernible in groups, of which not a few were children so young that they suggested the holiest relation.†
Chpt 6.5
- Thinking then of the fair Egyptian, insensibly his gait became slower, and at length fell into the merest loiter, until finally he could discern a curtained houdah, and two persons seated within it.†
Chpt 7.2discern = notice or understand something
- The idea that such a God might send mankind a Saviour instead of a king appeared to Ben-Hur in a light not merely new, but so plain that he could almost discern both the greater want of such a gift and its greater consistency with the nature of such a Deity.†
Chpt 7.3
- A man who has millions in store, and fleets of ships at sea, cannot discern in what simple women like us find amusement.†
Chpt 8.1
- She discerned, also, that both Amrah and Tirzah—the one from confirmed habits of servitude, the other from natural dependency—looked to her for guidance; and she accepted the charge.†
Chpt 8.3discerned = noticed something that is not obvious
Definition:
to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious