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ˈpurblindness
[f. purblind a. + -ness.]
The quality of being purblind (lit. and fig.).
1552Huloet, Purblindnes, Luscio. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 903 [They] cure the dulnesse or purblindnesse of their eyes with the powder of wilde Marjoram. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 22 A thin plate of gold..cures bleared eyes, or purblindness. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. x, The Professor's keen philosophic perspicacity is somewhat marred by a certain mixture of almost owlish purblindness. 1859C. Lyell in Darwin's Life & Lett. (1887) II. 207 To believe the eye to have been brought to perfection, from a state of blindness or purblindness. |