distinguish
verb (used with object)
to mark off as different (often followed by from orby ).
distinguishment
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a word derived from
distinguish.
Example Sentences
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Asked how other children reacted to him, Matthew joked: "Once they got past they initial distinguishment of fiction and reality, and they realised he can't fly, then the disappointment would set in."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
"The common existence of natural organic matter certainly requires prudent distinguishment."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2024
It is not abundant, and the veins are limited in extent; the only distinguishment it has from the dolomite, practically, is its fibrous structure, the fibers being brittle and very coarse.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
Do you, in your own mind, attach any difference to the sanction?—I object that the question put to me asks me to make a distinguishment which the law does not make.
From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Charles Bradlaugh
Accurate distinguishment between such "enrichments" as have and such as have not a doctrinal bearing is, no doubt, a delicate point, and must be set down among the difficulties to be encountered.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
