purblind

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purblind englannista suomeksi

  1. huononäköinen

  2. hidasjärkinen

  1. puolisokea

  2. heikkonäköinen

  3. hidasälyinen, yksinkertainen

  4. Substantiivi

  5. Verbi

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purblind englanniksi

  1. Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.

  2. (synonyms)

  3. (RQ:Elyot Governour)

  4. (RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis)

  5. (RQ:Smollett Peregrine Pickle)

  6. (RQ:Braddon Charlotte's Inheritance) ate the messes compounded for them in a darksome cupboard, known as the kitchen, by old Nanon the cook, purblind, stone-deaf, and all but imbecile, and popularly supposed to be the venerable mother of Madame Magnotte.

  7. (RQ:Stevenson South Seas)

  8. Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to age; weak.

  9. Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.

  10. (antonyms)

  11. (RQ:Drayton Poems)

  12. (RQ:Tennyson Idylls)

  13. (RQ:Hardy Tess)

  14. (quote-book)

  15. Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.

  16. (senseid) Completely blind.

  17. (RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Q1-2)'' he that ſhot ſo true, / VVhen The King and the Beggar-maid|King ''Cophetua'' lou'd the beger mayd.|footer=In this and the following quotations, Cupid is described as purblind, perhaps in reference to the proverb “is blind”.

  18. (RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)'', (..)

  19. (RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)''.

  20. Having one eye blind.

  21. (quote-book): Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Domjnions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Jtaly, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) John Beale,(nb...)|year=1617|section=book I, part III|pages=15–16|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b30323101/page/16/mode/1up|oclc=926907299|passage=The French haue a good Prouerbe. ''Entre les auengles, les borgnes ſont les Roys'': Among the blinde, the pore blind are the Kings. And thus they vvhich haue no skill in tongues, vvill boldly ſay, that this or that man doth perfectly, and vvithout ſtamering, ſpeake many tongs.

  22. Near-sighted, short-sighted; myopic.

  23. (RQ:Thomas More Workes)

  24. (RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)

  25. (RQ:Swift Works)

  26. Far-sighted, long-sighted; hypermetropic.

  27. A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.

  28. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) J. Robinson and W. Johnston,(nb...); P. Davey and B. Law(nb...); and H. Woodgate and S. Brooks,(nb...)|year=1759|volume=II|page=918|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b30454967_0002/page/918/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=228763729|passage=If the miraculous Blood fails of diſſolving at its Approach to the miraculous Head, the vviſe ''Neapolitans'' look on it as an Omen of ſome more grievous Judgmt. than our Foreſighted Purblinds do of a Salt's Overthrovv on Table; but vvhen it benignly liquifies 'tis then a ſure Token of heavenly Favour, and the Able Pious ſurely make rich Offerings accordingly.

  29. (quote-book)|location=Dublin|publisher=(...) Robert Jackson(nb...)|year=1781|page=59|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBZgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA59|oclc=1205006256|passage=To love and adore is our proper province, not to knovv much; for as to knovvledge, vve are mere purblinds both in naturals and ſpirituals.

  30. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=and Sons|Waterlow & Sons(nb...)|year=1886|volume=I|page=142|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wzc_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA142|oclc=228771767|passage=By the freak of Fortune we were like to like, three Kalendars and three purblinds, all blind of the left eye.

  31. To cause (someone) to have impaired vision or become partially blind.

  32. (quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=(...) Henry Brome,(nb...)|year=1661|year_published=1668|page=219|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJY0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219|oclc=78682869|passage=And may the Sun, that novv begins t'appear / I'th ''Horizon'' to uſher in the year, / Melt all thoſe fatuous ''Vapours'', vvhoſe falſe light / Purblinds the ''VVorld'', and leads them from the ''right''; (..)

  33. (quote-book)|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) R. Fleming and Company, and sold by Mr. James Davidson, and John Paton,(nb...)|month=(date written)|year=a. 1664|year_published=1735|page=450|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SUVfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA450|column=1|oclc=642282862|passage=It is ſtrange to think, hovv ſound and clear, and diſtinct a Man's Judgment, vvill be againſt thoſe Evils in others, vvhich he ſeeth not in himſelf; (..) Self-love ſo purblinds them in this Reflection, that they cannot diſcern that in themſelves, vvhich others cannot but diſcern.

  34. (RQ:Carlyle Sartor Resartus)

  35. (quote-book)|location=London; New York, N.Y.|publisher=Sprent Virtue|Virtue and Co.,(nb...)|year=c. 1877|volume=IV|page=407|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$c235589&view=1up&seq=473|column=2|oclc=21925343|passage=His &91;(w)'s&93; self-isolation from politics, whether of court or country, commanded a national admiration, intense no doubt, but tempered with a suspicion of "part-playing" unjust to the man as it would have been unpardonable in the people, had it not originated in that traditional jealousy of the democracy not only of England, but of every other country, which purblinds it to the integrity of beneficial influences flowing spontaneously through an atmosphere of regal regions.