stone-blind
Americanadjective
adjective
Synonym Usage
See blind.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stone-blind
1325–75; Middle English (north) staneblynde; see stone, blind
Example Sentences
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The late, great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suffered all his life from weak eyes, was stone-blind when he died in 1911.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the second week, everyone knew perfectly well what was going on, yet everyone tried to look as if they were stone-blind to the changes in Jo’s face.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Here is one in which a person stone-blind from birth received sight when I blew into his eyes.”
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
It burned them so, that they became stone-blind.
From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.
Look where you will, at the great wars and at the blood-tracked colonising movements of history, and always you will find two kinds of men: the stone-blind idealist, and the crass, open-eyed, fleshly man.
From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.
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