Definition of Distinguishing

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Definition of Distinguishing
	Distinguishing of Distinguish Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. Related Definitions: Characteristic, Constituting, Difference, Distinction, Distinctive, Distinguish, Else, Everything, From, Of, Or, Peculiar

Distinguishing Quotations

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
Anne Sullivan Macy

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
Timothy Garton Ash

Distinguishing Translations

distinguishing in French is distinguant
distinguishing in German is auszeichnend, unterscheidend

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