purblind

1. (figuratively)Examples: "Yet did my Breſt that glorious fire incloſe, / VVhich their dull purblind Ignorance not ſavv, […]"; "O purblind race of miserable men, / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. / By taking true for false, or false for true."; "When she ceased the auricular impressions from their previous endearments seemed to hustle away into the corners of their brains, repeating themselves as echoes from a time of supremely purblind foolishness."Synonyms: obtuse, purblinded, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheadedAntonyms: brainless, dumb, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, insensible, lowbrow, mindlessfigurativelyliterary

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3. (obsolete)Examples: "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."; "This vvimpled vvhy[n]ing purblind vvayvvard Boy, / This ſignior Iunios gyant dvvarffe, dan Cupid, […]"; "This is a nevv ſalute: / Sure h'as forgot me: this is pur-blinde Cupid."literaryobsolete

4. (obsolete)Examples: "The French haue a good Prouerbe. Entre les auengles, les borgnes ſont les Roys: Among the blinde, the pore blind are the Kings. And thus they vvhich haue no skill in tongues, vvill boldly ſay, that this or that man doth perfectly, and vvithout ſtamering, ſpeake many tongs."literaryobsolete

5. (obsolete)Examples: "The man that is pore blinde, cannot ſee far from hym. And as to ioke on deth we be for the moſt part pore blinde all yͭ mayny: for we cannot ſee hym til he cõe [come] very nere vs. But theſe folk be not pore blynde but ſtarke blynde: for they cãnot ſee him when he commeth ſo nere, yͭ hee putteth almoſte his finger in theyr eye."; "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."; "I am sorry to hear your complaints still of giddiness. I was in hopes you would have mended, like my purblind eyes, with old age."Synonyms: mope-eyedliteraryobsolete

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