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discerner

[ dih-sur-ner, -zur- ]

noun

  1. a person who perceives or detects something:

    As leaders in the school, we have to be critical discerners of the things brought to our attention.



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“A polymath, a discerner of Nature’s fundamental patterns, and, as such, an expositor for the connections of physics to other disciplines, Murray helped define the approaches of generations of scientists.”

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It is disclosed to the eye behind the eye, to the heart which is the true discerner.

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Bien qu’il s’en défende, M. Grolleau, dans cette langue élégante et harmonieuse que lui connaissent ceux qui ont lu ses beaux vers, réussit a discerner mieux et à mieux révéler que certaines diatribes «l’âme et la passion» de l’auteur de De Profundis.

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He is a poet too, of fine quality; not a singer of sentimental songs, nor a spinner of elegant fancies, but a discerner of the spirit of beauty.

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He was by temperament as well as by training, a scholar, a reader of books, a discerner of opinions, a devotee of ideas.

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