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What is less obvious, but more significant, is its purblindness.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

I hear, also, that "daily, from one quarter or another, come critical cuff and kick, to impress upon a numb public the latest example of its immemorial purblindness."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 20, 1890 by Various

Thus through the narrow views and purblindness of its official the nation lost an excellent opportunity of keeping the telegraph system in its own hands.

From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John

The white tie, over which Mr. Tillotson had taken infinite pains and which he believed in his purblindness to be perfect, was fantastically lop-sided.

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous

Josephine played upon his purblindness where she was concerned in most scandalous ways.

From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Runciman, Walter