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Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-surn, -zurn
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɜrn, -ˈzɜrn

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Définition of discerned

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French discerner (13c.) "distinguish (between), separate" (by sifting), and directly from Latin discernere "to separate, set apart, divide, distribute; distinguish, perceive," from dis- "off, away" (see dis-) + cernere "distinguish, separate, sift" (see crisis). Related: Discerned; discerning.
  • verb catch sight of; recognize and understand
Example sentences :
  • Amid the din and dust little but destruction can be discerned.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • And in the low bushes could be discerned the lurking, furtive, shadowy jackals.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • I do not exaggerate when I say that from end to end could not be discerned a single weed.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • There, in the faint, red light, Taffy discerned a great cave.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • Bill Bryant now discerned the hazy outline of a moving figure.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • But presently I discerned a woman's figure standing by the window.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
  • Then, on the cliff, she had discerned a likeness of line, a definite similarity of features.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • Had she been a typical English girl he might have discerned something of the truth of her.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • But no one imagines that any seed of immortality is to be discerned in our mortal frames.
  • Extract from : « Phaedo » by Plato
  • In the dusk its colour was almost all that could be discerned of it.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini

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