| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | se·cern |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -sûrn |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: se·cerned, se·cern·ing, se·cerns
To discern as separate; discriminate. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin s cernere, to sever : s-, apart; see s(w)e- in Appendix I + cernere, to separate; see krei- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | se·cernment —NOUN
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