Skip to main content

purblindness

/pur-blahynd/US // ˈpɜrˌblaɪnd //UK // (ˈpɜːˌblaɪnd) //

紫盲症,紫斑症,紫斑病,紫禁城

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
    • : slow or deficient in understanding, imagination, or vision.
    • : Obsolete. totally blind.

Examples

  • Shift has invoked Tash, a vulture-headed demonic power, only because he is too purblind actually to believe in him.

  • By a strange fatality, they were generally purblind, and always shyed most fearfully when an Opposition coach approached them.

  • This excited great merriment: Captain Ezekiel was an aged, purblind man, who leaned on a cane.

  • “Sh-sh-sh,” said the doctor, running his forefinger along to guide his purblind eyes safely to the end of the paragraph.

  • Often the man is also the victim of the purblind social customs which make sex-knowledge tabu.

  • Could aught in this petty purblind existence of ours redeem it and exalt it so: her love, this pure sweet girl's, and mine.