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Definition of Purblindness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purblindness
Literary usage of Purblindness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Riparian Lands of the Mississippi River, Past--present--prospective: Being a by Frank H. Tompkins (1901)
"... petition will be unable to resist so formidable and general an advance into
the territories that American purblindness has permitted it to ..."
2. The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence edited by Richard Halkett (1888)
"On the contrary, it too often induces or confirms that peculiar woodenness and
opacity, that singular coarseness of feeling and purblindness of moral and ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... an inability to perceive the value of the antiquities of this continent, it
is gratifying to note that this purblindness does not prevail in Europe. ..."
4. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... has lost immensely by its narrowness of spirit, its rigid materialism, its
sectarian dogmatism. One school in its purblindness sternly ignores ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... but all the embattled hosts of ignorance who are indifferent to what is beyond
their own purblindness. It is a general opposition of darkness to light. ..."
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