purblind
adjective
nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
purblindness
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a word derived from
purblind.
Example Sentences
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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 John Munro
His eyesight had grown dimmer, but otherwise his bodily health had improved, for nowadays he ate food enough: and, as for purblindness, why there was no real need to keep watch on the sea.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Edmond Holmes
Thus the individual is forced to work laboriously for his own good, which in his purblindness he does not even recognize.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
I find I can pardon all things in a man except purblindness, falseness of vision,—for, indeed, does not that presuppose every other kind of falseness?
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
