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Definition of Purblindly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purblindly
Literary usage of Purblindly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1908)
"... which has sometimes been translated (still more purblindly) into one of mere
courtliness—of a Froissart-like indifference to anything but 'the quality/ ..."
2. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"He would lift himself from their ranks, which he scarcely over-topped, as you
came up the footway to his door, and peer purblindly across at you. ..."
3. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"He would lift himself from their ranks, which he scarcely over-topped, as you
came up the footway to his door, and peer purblindly across at you. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the
Godlike ; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly ..."
5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... he is both too exclusively and too purblindly " belletristic"— cannot be
extended to Henry Home, Lord Kames. Johnson, whom Kames disliked violently, ..."
6. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"There was an enormous man in uniform towering a head above the others, blond,
with a-heavy, preoccupied expression, enormous yellow moustache, purblindly ..."
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