The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discerner \Dis*cern"er\, n. One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.
A great observer and discerner of men's natures.
--Clarendon.
Wiktionary
n. One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, or judges.
Usage examples of "discerner".
However, I think you'll find that this outer island is rather interesting, and the important thing isn't sight-seeing, after all, but a satisfactory initial meeting with the Discerner Frolotu and her associates.
Antar stated, cutting off a response by the sorcerer, "that this Discerner knows a true-speaker from a liar.
Perhaps this Discerner herself would like a taste of Lord Osorkon's famous hospitality!
Prince Antar said, "let it be understood that I will be the only one to negotiate with this Discerner, Labornok's invasion of Ruwenda was undertaken for one principal reason: to redress our longstanding trade grievances and ensure a steady supply of vital commodities such as minerals and timber.
The region directly across the canal from Lusagira Square, where numbers of Nyssomu had made homes among the ruins, was completely off-limits to humans unless the Discerner herself declared an exception.
The Discerner Frolotu was peering at her again through her lens and smiling.
At the end the Discerner sat back with her great eyes closed and her wide lips mumbling silent words.
Some time later, two voices were heard in the corridor, interrupted by a third at the door: the horn-headed Gablian purser, saying in his formal way: “Great Discerner, may I present Honorable Ellin Voy, Honorable Gandro Bao.
Some time later, two voices were heard in the corridor, interrupted by a third at the door: the horn-headed Gablian purser, saying in his formal way: "Great Discerner, may I present Honorable Ellin Voy, Honorable Gandro Bao.
Dickinson, another very remarkable discerner of spirits, who named twenty-four correctly during two meetings held on the same day, is employed in loading canal barges.
But it shall be your curse, ye immaculate ones, ye pure discerners, that ye shall never bring forth, even though ye lie broad and teeming on the horizon!
He, however, who is obtrusive with his eyes as a discerner, how can he ever see more of anything than its foreground!
And verily it should be yet better within than without, for God is a discerner of our heart, Whom we must reverence with all our hearts wheresoever we are, and walk pure in His presence as do the angels.
A large field is yet left unto sharper discerners to enlarge upon this order, to search out the quaternios and figured draughts of this nature, and moderating the study of names, and meer nomenclature of plants, to erect generalities, disclose unobserved proprieties, not only in the vegetable shop, but the whole volume of nature.
To omit the five small buttons dividing the Circle of the Ivyberry, and the five characters in the Winter stalk of the Walnut, with many other Observables, which cannot escape the eyes of signal discerners.