purblindness

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pur·blind (pûr

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adj.

1. Having poor vision; nearly or partly blind.

2. Slow in understanding or discernment; dull: "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin" (Jasper Griffin).

3. Obsolete Completely blind.

[Middle English pur blind, totally blind, nearsighted : pur, pure; see pure + blind, blind; see blind.]

purblindly adv.

purblindness n.

Translations

purblindness

adj (liter) (lit) → Halbblindheit; (fig) → Blindheit f, → Borniertheit f, → Dummheit f

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