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Definition of Blindnesses
1. blindness [n] - See also: blindness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blindnesses
Literary usage of Blindnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1863)
"2762; and by the blindnesses, with which those who were sent thither by the king
of Syria, were smitten, are signified the falsities themselves, n. ..."
2. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876)
"penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires ! " * The human soul is
true to these facts in the painting of fable ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"We have set these blindnesses down to ignorance. But what if we be seeing double !
It is not my opinion that we are positively seeing double. ..."