discerninglyadv.
/dᵻˈsəːnɪŋli/, U.S. /dəˈsərnɪŋli/ In a discerning manner; with discernment.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [adverb]
discerningly1624
discriminativelya1638
differencinglya1640
distinguishingly1649
discriminately1706
discriminatingly1802
1624 E. Forset Def. Right of Kings 49 To manifest yet more discerningly, the idlenesse, the fraude, and vnfit applying of this distinction.
1634 M. Sandys Prudence 73 Memory discerningly and distinctly reverts unto things.
1717 S. Garth in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses Pref. p. vi Those two Errors Ovid has most discerningly avoided.
1764 J. Griffith Some Brief Remarks Sundry Important Subj. iv. 73 Blessed will all those servants be, who are preserved, discerningly and with true judgment.
1862 C. Kingsley Alton Locke (rev. ed.) Pref. p. xiv That they may judge discerningly and charitably of their fellow-men.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. v. 107 Here his large eyes looked discerningly through the spectacles.
1915 S. Lewis Trail of Hawk xxxii. 301 Carl discerningly stole one of Ray's best cigars out of the humidor.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June ii. 8/1 Those of us in the audience must examine a bit more discerningly and skeptically what is presented to us daily as The Truth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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