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▪ I. unˈseeing, vbl. n. (un-1 13.)
1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. viii. i. §14. 164 False seeing is unseeing,—on the negative side of blindness. ▪ II. unˈseeing, ppl. a. [un-1 10, 5 d. Cf. OE. unᵹeséonde not yet seeing, MHG. unsëhende (G. unsehend) in sense 2.] †1. Unseen, invisible. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 25010 Wit þis word ‘heuen’ þou vnder⁓stand Al gastli thing and vnseand. 2. Not seeing; lacking sight. Freq. in recent use, esp. with eyes.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. iv. 209 Else by Ioue, I vow, I should haue scratch'd out your vnseeing eyes. c1600― Sonn. xliii, How would thy shadowes forme, forme happy show,..When to vn-seeing eyes thy shade shines so? 1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 66 With a full eye, that of the circling throng And of the visible world unseeing, seem'd Fix'd upon objects seen by none beside. 1819Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 33 As one who, sever'd from the maid he loves, Rolls an unseeing eye on all beside. a1830Ld. Cockburn Mem. (1856) 17 But the garden!..unseen and unseeing, it was a world of its own. 1873M. E. Braddon L. Davoren I. 57 He looked at his friend's face with blank unseeing eyes. 1888D. C. Murray Weaker Vessel ii, After an apparently unseeing glance at one of its pages. 3. With object: Without seeing.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 445, I haue gone eighteene leagues,..vnseeing house or Village. 1798Southey Joan of Arc (ed. 2) i. I. 124, I sat in silence,..unheeding and unseeing all Around me. Hence unˈseeingly adv.
1893M. Corelli Barabbas xxxiii, Barabbas went out, wandering almost unseeingly in the open street. |