Definitionn. a discrimination between things as different and distinct
Last update: July 18, 2015
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It has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town. [noun]
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He learned the distinction between gold and lead. [noun]
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It is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation. [noun]
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The social division corresponds roughly, no doubt, to the race distinction between the true Celts and the aboriginal populations subdued by them. [noun]
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In the later years the distinction by faculty began to be disregarded and books were added where there was space on the shelves. [noun]
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They advised her to be attentive to the wants of her companion, and never to forget the distinction which the Manitou had so wisely established between them. [noun]
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I have no father to expect me, and but few friends to lament a fate which I have courted with the insatiable longings of youth after distinction. [noun]
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"'Tis the name his Canada fathers have given to Magua," returned the runner, with an air that manifested his pride at the distinction.' [noun]
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You cannot fathom the black depths of such a character as Fareham--a man as capable of greatness in evil as of distinction in good. [noun]
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Believe me, love, it were wise of you to become Lady Warner, with an unmortgaged estate, and a husband who, in these Republican times, may rise to distinction. [noun]
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"The King lacks only that culminating distinction of having persecuted the greatest poet of the age in order to stand equal to the bigots who murdered Giordano Bruno," said Denzil. [noun]
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