Purblind

Definitions

A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.

literary

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Examples

“If the miraculous Blood fails of diſſolving at its Approach⟳ to the miraculous Head, the vviſe Neapolitans look⟳ on it as an Omen of ſome more grievous Judgmt. than our Foreſighted Purblinds do of a Salt's Overthrovv on Table; but vvhen it benignly liquifies 'tis then a ſure Token of heavenly Favour, and the Able Pious ſurely make⟳ rich Offerings accordingly.”

“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.”

“By the freak of Fortune we were like⟳ to like⟳, three Kalendars and three purblinds, all blind of the left eye.”

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