discerner

American  

[dih-sur-ner, -zur-] / dɪˈsɜr nər, -ˈzɜr- /

noun

1. a person who perceives or detects something.

   As leaders in the school, we have to be critical discerners of the things brought to our attention.

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Etymology

Origin of discerner

discern ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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discerner

He was by temperament as well as by training, a scholar, a reader of books, a discerner of opinions, a devotee of ideas.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

He was a lover of truth, and believed himself to be a discerner of it.

From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens

The kritikos, the discerner, if he is ever saying to us, This is not gold; and never, This is; is either very humbly useful, or very perverse, or very unfortunate.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

I could but smile at the young discerner whose thoughts agreed so fully with my own.

From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck

Queen Elizabeth had several of his plays acted before her, and that princess was too quick a discerner, and rewarder of merit, to suffer that of Shakespear to be neglected.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber

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