purblind
adjective
nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
purblindness
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a word derived from
purblind.
Example Sentences
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Josephine played upon his purblindness where she was concerned in most scandalous ways.
From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Walter Runciman
In spite of his infirmity and purblindness he took in the situation with his wonted quickness.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
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
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
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
