| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pur·blind |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  pûr bl nd |
| ADJECTIVE: | 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English pur blind, totally blind, nearsighted : pur, pure; see pure + blind, blind; see blind. | | OTHER FORMS: | purblindly —ADVERB
purblindness —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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