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/dɪskˈəvəri/ /dɪskˈəvri/ /dˌɪskˈəvri/ Listen

noun

Discovery n. (pl. discoveries)

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. "In the clear discoveries of the next (world)."

Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. "A brilliant career of discovery and conquest." "We speak of the "invention" of printing, the discovery of America."

That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery.

Exploration; examination. (Obs.)

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"Discovery" Quotes from Famous Books

... I had put a weight on my shoulders to represent my kit. I kept at it for a week, but I knew the game was up. The discovery ...

— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie

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... industrious the good gentlemen are in debasing themselves! Their ingenuity is never half so much shown in a simile as in a compliment; I know nothing in nature more melancholy than the discovery of any meanness in a great man. There is so little to redeem the dry mass of follies and errors from which the materials of this life are composed, that anything to love or to reverence becomes, as it were, the sabbath ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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... gifted poet seemed but to have spoken what was already in Gaston's own mind, what he had longed to say, had been just going to say; so near it came, that it had the charm [56] of a discovery of one's own. That was an illusion, perhaps; it was because the poet told one so much about himself, making so free a display of what though personal was very contagious; of his love-secrets especially, how love and nothing else ...

— Gaston de Latour: an unfinished romance • Walter Horatio Pater

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... in a way. He had memories to add to his emotion, but then, on the other hand, he lacked the sense of discovery I had, for he had known often such feelings as were coming to me for the first time. When he was a young man he had been a colporteur for the American Bible Society among the Lake Superior Indians, and in that way had earned part of the money ...

— Painted Windows • Elia W. Peattie

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... feels so hopelessly barren in declared pessimism is just its arrogance. It seems as if the discovery made by many men at various times that there is much evil in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seriously the art of fiction.... To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to ...

— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley

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