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Meanings of discern in in English

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Usage of discern in in English
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But we have to discern in them a further and future significance.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
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I could never discern in him any more than two fixed principles.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Cecilia said, 'Yet I cannot discern in him a veneration for aristocracy.'
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4
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We discern in him wide gaps, vast clearings in the soul.
The Cathedral
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The fact is that what I discern in them I don't clearly see.
The book of disquiet
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A vague shadowy form is all that he can discern in the gloom.
The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
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Do you not discern in that letter Z an adverse influence?
Z. Marcas
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All that we discern in the universe is there: and a great deal besides.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
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I discern in thee some mind to know the truth.
The Valley of the Kings
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Then I discern in Vere intellectual force, immature, embryonic if you like, but unmistakable.
A Spirit in Prison
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The fanatical cavalier could not fail to discern in it the immediate finger of Providence.
History of the Conquest of Peru
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She believed that she could discern in him already the first hints of middle age.
Sacrifice
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Nor could he discern in the candidate for a curacy any mark of dishonourable purpose.
Born in Exile
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Nestled apparently close beneath them, we could discern in the distance something like a building.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
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He studied it until he could discern in the distorted features a face he knew.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
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But allegiances are not always easy to discern in the Western Mountains, with sometimes fatal consequences.
Reuters
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