Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who discerns; one who observes or perceives.
- noun That which distinguishes or separates; that which serves as a ground or means of discrimination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
discerns ,distinguishes , orjudges .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hebrews 4:12 NKJV says: "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Archive 2008-08-01 Happy 2008
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Hebrews 4:12 NKJV says: "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
3:00am musings on a couple of things Happy 2008
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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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Il tourna faiblement la tête où je pu discerner un sourire
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Your filial goodness, Sir, affects me: but, with the consciousness that must have accompanied the words, would not that, to so nice a discerner, have been to own, that I thought the tender emotion wanted an apology?
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He, however, who is obtrusive with his eyes as a discerner, how can he ever see more of anything than its foreground!
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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4. 1999
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Henry Gamadge, a modest, endearing man, scholar, bibliophile, expert (he hated the word) discerner of forged manuscripts, found himself in the midst of murder in a Maine resort.
Working Murder Boylan, Eleanor 1989
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God's word is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
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