Something discovered.
This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
The discovering of new things.
The purpose of the voyage was discovery.
An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.
Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […] The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making a discovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness […]
from discover + -ery, on the pattern of the pair recover, recovery. Displaced native Old English onfundennes.
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