sightlessnessn.
Lack of sight.
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blindnessc1000
blindheada1340
darknessa1382
unsightc1412
stone-blindc1500
cecity1528
ablepsy1616
anopsy1646
invision1646
anopsia1842
sightlessness1847
stone-blindness1868
1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. iv. 176 It is one instance only out of the myriads which might be given of sightlessness in modern art.
1854 ‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps 90 There was a full assortment of the halt..and the crippled—all degrees of sightlessness and unsightliness.
1893 R. T. Jeffrey Visits to Calvary 227 Your sightlessness is a sad deprivation.
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