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▪ I. discerning, vbl. n.|dɪˈzɜːnɪŋ, -s-|
[f. discern v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb discern (q.v.); distinction, discrimination; intellectual perception, discernment.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxiv. 1, By the inwarde wyttes to have decernynge. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 123 b, The discernynge of true reuelacyons..from false illusyons. 1644Milton Judgm. Bucer Wks. 1738 I. 275 If it be in man's discerning to sever Providence from Chance. 1711Steele Spect. No. 149 ⁋4 If they are Men of discerning, they can observe the Motives of your Heart. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 85 It asks not his nicer discerning To observe [etc.].
▪ II. discerning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That discerns (see the verb); distinguishing, discriminating, perceiving; esp. (of persons or their minds, etc.) Having or showing discernment; quick in intellectual perception; penetrating.
1608D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 49 b, Directed..by a better discerning wisdom. 1680–3Soame & Dryden tr. Boileau's Art of Poetry iii. 801 A glance, a touch, discovers to the wise; But every man has not discerning eyes. 1711Addison Spect. No. 261 ⁋9 Before Marriage we cannot be too inquisitive and discerning in the Faults of the Person beloved. 1781Cowper Conversation 373 True modesty is a discerning grace, And only blushes in the proper place. 1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1854) 531/2 Every discerning and impartial judge will admit, that there was really nothing in common.
†b. Separating, dividing: cf. discern v. 1. Obs.
1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. ii. §i. 119 Are we improved by the purification of the discerning flames? |