Blindness
['blaɪdnɪs] or ['blaɪndnɪs]
Definition
(n.) State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
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Examples
- They are full of light, but the light to them has become only a sort of luminous mist or blindness. Plato. The Republic.
- What blindness, what madness, had led her on! Jane Austen. Emma.
- What with her natural blindness, and what with the change from dark to light, she stood as one dazed, blinking about her to see where and who we were. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration of the blindness of preconceived opinion. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Mr. Hale was in exactly that stage of apprehension which, in men of his stamp, takes the shape of wilful blindness. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She could not flatter herself with any idea of blindness in his attachment to _her_. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If I should kill him in the blindness of my wrath, what would be my feelings ever afterwards! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In some employments color blindness in an employee would be fatal to many lives. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman, and Miss Peecher kept him on double duty over Mr Bradley Headstone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She blessed the favouring blindness. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I wish I had attended to itbut(with a sinking voice and a heavy sigh) I seem to have been doomed to blindness. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This hard bright blindness had kept her immediate horizon apparently unaltered. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In this no fatal blindness dims thine eyes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How she thanked God for Gerald's obtuse blindness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The blunders, the blindness of her own head and heart! Jane Austen. Emma.
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