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decern old use

How do you discern the other person's point of view?

The relationship between the President and the military is more difficult to discern.

They look at me, and even with your mind I could discern the difference.

Between the two of them, they would discern the truth.

And it is hard to discern any difference in service.

You can discern a change only once in a generation.

Something dark, the nature of which he could not immediately discern.

It seemed to him something was there, although he could discern nothing.

She seemed like the right person to discern the true meaning.

To this I would add that the future can be difficult to discern.

Just as important, they could also discern who had no need for their products.

But he could see well enough to discern the features of the man before him.

The full picture is hard to discern, much less the larger idea.

There were no other side effects that I could discern.

With the sun behind him, his features were difficult to discern.

Even so, it was easy to discern who thought what of whom.

However, these characters can be difficult to discern in the field.

No one was about, so far as Ring could discern.

She tried to discern what he was thinking, but his face revealed nothing.

Already, he could barely discern the First at the head of the company.

Hand had tried to discern our crime, but the man could not get it through Hand's head.

The answers are more difficult to discern than it seems.

This year it was difficult to discern such differences, however.

The role of the black intellectual is difficult to discern.

They were trying to discern who else might be dying.

Therefore, I adjudge and decern you to be taken to the cross of Banff to be hanged by the neck to the death".

I imagine it would would take a very senstitive exposure to decern the word Marmite, two different colooured inks on paper.