What is "discerns"

Usage examples of "discerns".

She cries for grief, and to the Gods she cries, For fearfully their loosened hands chastize, And icily they watch the rod's caress Ravage her flesh from scourges merciless, But she, inveterate of brain, discerns That Pity has as little place as Joy Among their roll of gifts.

Mean while the Eternal eye, whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy mount, And from within the golden lamps that burn Nightly before him, saw without their light Rebellion rising.

Under the propaganda cosmetics-the German paint whorish, the British ladylike-one discerns the same grim face of events: Germany and Japan triumphant.

Newton discerns them by assigning them differing positions in space, and then presuming that space is somehow pervaded by a mysterious presence that accounts for the inverse-square force.

And it's the owner of those colors who discerns their shape and tone, communicates them to others.

He studies the opening in the trees ahead but discerns no tracks, no structures.