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Purblind adj.

Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight."

Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. "The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind." "O purblind race of miserable men."

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Etymology of 'Purblind'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... regretted a thousand times that she bartered her youth and beauty for life companionship with a tub of tallow, mistaken at the time for a god by a purblind public, but even though it be true, as often asserted, that the old boor gets drunk and beats her, a woman could scarce apply for divorce from a man who has twice been president. Furthermore, association with such a man will lower the ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... the enchanted moccasins. He would have taken away Onwee's war-club too, if he could have carried it; but although he was twice the size and girth of Onwee, he had not the strength to lift it; so he borrowed a club from an old chief, who was purblind, and mistook Ko-ko for his brother who was a brave man; and raising a terrible tumult with his voice, and a great dust with his ...

— The Indian Fairy Book - From the Original Legends • Cornelius Mathews

... front half plunged into the back of her hut, the Epeira certainly cannot see her web. Even if she had good sight, instead of being purblind, her position could not possibly allow her to keep the prey in view. Does she give up hunting during this period, of bright sunlight? Not at ...

— The Life of the Spider • J. Henri Fabre

... before they were dead. At last they were reduced to such extremity, that they proposed to cast lots for one to be killed to support the others; they turned back on their route, that they might find the dead bodies of their companions for food. Finally, out of the whole crew, three or four, purblind and staggering from exhaustion, craving for death, arrived at the borders of the colony, where they were ...

— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat

... circumstance, together with what I saw that afternoon in every street, convinced me how much our friends were dispirited, and I therefore resolved next day to raise their courage. I knew the First President to be purblind, and such men greedily swallow every new fact which confirms them in their first impression. I knew likewise the Cardinal to be a man that supposed everybody had a back door. The only way of dealing with men of that stamp is to make them ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

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