All 5 Uses
discern
in
Washington Black
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- I could not discern his thoughts and this panicked me beyond everything; I wanted to tell him again that I had done nothing, that I had been forced to watch, that Mister Philip had wrought his vicious end himself.†
p. 111.6discern = notice or understand something
- This he would certainly have discerned for himself.†
p. 155.4discerned = noticed something that is not obvious
- Some unspoken suggestion passed between them, something I could not discern the meaning of.†
p. 159.4discern = notice or understand something
- When he had vanished entirely, all I could discern was a low orange glow rising from the earth Where he had gone.†
p. 163.5 *
- I could hear voices, though I could not discern what they were saying.†
p. 164.2
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)