perceives

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Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack; 7.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel

So man by taking thought Perceives them ere their accidents are wrought, And by such thinking banishes the past And views the future, quiet and steadfast.

From Laments by Prall, Dorothea

France, disillusioned at last, "Perceives him fast to a harsher Tyrant bound; Self-ridden, self-hunted, captive of his aim; Material gradeur's ape, the Infernal's hound."

From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Raemaekers, Louis

Herschel ascends himself with venturous wain, And joins and flanks thy planetary train, Perceives his distance from their elder spheres, And guards with numerous moons the lonely round he steers.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel