discrimination

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISCRIMINATION, noun 1. The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as the discrimination between right and wrong. 2. The state of being distinguished. 3. Mark of distinction.
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