distinguishing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISTINGUISHING, participle present tense 1. Separating from others by a note of diversity; ascertaining difference by a mark. 2. Ascertaining, knowing or perceiving a difference. 3. adjective Constituting difference, or distinction from every thing else; peculiar; as the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity.
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