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descry

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1. descry - Noun

2. descry - Verb

Meaning

To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.

To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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