Sekirov Dictionary

purblind

UK /ˈpɜːblaɪnd/US /ˈpɝblaɪnd/

adjective 8
noun 1
verb 1
forms 5

adjective8

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(literary) Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
- And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare, / Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles, / How he outruns the wind, and with what care, / He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles: […] — 1593
(literary) Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
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(literary, figurative) Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.
- Yet did my Brest that glorious fire inclose, / VVhich their dull purblind Ignorance not savv, […] — 1607
(literary, figurative) Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
(literary, no longer used) Having one eye blind.
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(literary, no longer used) Near-sighted, short-sighted; myopic.
- Pore-blinde Men, see best in the Dimmer Lights; And likevvise haue their Sight Stronger neere hand, than those that are not Pore-blinde, And can Reade and VVrite smaller Letters. — 1631
(no longer used, rare) Far-sighted, long-sighted; hypermetropic.
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(literary, no longer used) Completely blind.
- Speake to my goship Venus one faire vvord, / One nickname for her purblind sonne and her, / Young Abraham: Cupid he that shot so true, / VVhen King Cophetua lou'd the beger mayd. — 1591

noun1

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A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.
- To love and adore is our proper province, not to knovv much; for as to knovvledge, vve are mere purblinds both in naturals and spirituals. — 1781

verb1

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(literary) To cause (someone) to have impaired vision or become partially blind.
- And may the Sun, that novv begins t'appear / I'th Horizon to usher in the year, / Melt all those fatuous Vapours, vvhose false light / Purblinds the VVorld, and leads them from the right; […] — 1661

forms

purblinded · purblinding · purblinds · more purblind · most purblind

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