Both Uses
discern
in
Earth's Holocaust
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- It was a strange sight to discern the crown jewels of England glowing and flashing in the midst of the fire.†
*discern = notice or understand something
- Purify that inward sphere, and the many shapes of evil that haunt the outward, and which now seem almost our only realities, will turn to shadowy phantoms and vanish of their own accord; but if we go no deeper than the intellect, and strive, with merely that feeble instrument, to discern and rectify what is wrong, our whole accomplishment will be a dream, so unsubstantial that it matters little whether the bonfire, which I have so faithfully described, were what we choose to call a real event and a flame that would scorch the finger, or only a phosphoric radiance and a parable of my own brain.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)