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perceive

[per-seev] / pərˈsiv /




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They describe their work, Perceive Me, as a social experiment in prejudice, where users are asked to confront perceptions of people through online content.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2015

Besides, Beholding pious hermit-rites Preserved from fearful harm, Perceive the profit of the scars On your protecting arm.

From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.

From Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists by Olmsted, M. N.

Perceive we not how they, whose tenderness shrinketh at the least rase of a needle's point, do kiss the sword that pierceth their souls quite thorow?

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

They "said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him."

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary




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