Purblindness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind.
     See {Pure}, and cf. {Poreblind}.]
     1. Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight."
        --Shak.
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     2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a
        purblind eye; a purblind mole.
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              The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from
              heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. --Latimer.
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              O purblind race of miserable men.     --Tennyson.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Pur"blind`ly}, adv. --
        {Pur"blind`ness}, n.
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