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Definition: Purblindness
Purblind
\Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind.
See
Pure, and cf.
Poreblind.]
1. Wholly blind.
“Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.”
--Shak.
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2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a
purblind eye; a purblind mole.
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The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from
heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. --Latimer.
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O purblind race of miserable men. --Tennyson.
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Pur"blind`ly, adv. --
Pur"blind`ness, n.
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