The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind. See Pure, and cf. Poreblind.]
Wholly blind. ``Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.''
--Shak.-
Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.
The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind.
--Latimer.O purblind race of miserable men.
--Tennyson. [1913 Webster] -- Pur"blind`ly, adv. -- Pur"blind`ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being purblind.
Usage examples of "purblindness".
The growth of the city, street by street, building by building, had been driven not by any conscious intent, not even by the will of the emperors, but by individual decisions, motivated by the greed or nobility, farsightedness or purblindness that afflicted every human being.