

Jun 8, 2016 This week’s theme

Words that have changed



This week’s words

ingenuous

specious

purblind

feisty

officious

Words that have changed A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



purblind PRONUNCIATION: (PUHR-blynd)

MEANING: adjective:

1. Partially blind.

2. Lacking in understanding, insight, or vision.

ETYMOLOGY: From pure + blind, meaning completely blind. Over time, the sense shifted to partially blind. Earliest documented use: 1300.

USAGE:

Eye Robot; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 23, 2010.



“The Administration had wanted to arm, and a purblind Congress wouldn’t vote the money.”

Upton Sinclair; A World to Win; Viking; 1946.



See more usage examples of “Robots themselves cannot see very well. And people are understandably wary of purblind contraptions bumping into them willy-nilly in the street or at home.”Eye Robot;(London, UK); Oct 23, 2010.“The Administration had wanted to arm, and a purblind Congress wouldn’t vote the money.”Upton Sinclair;; Viking; 1946.See more usage examples of purblind in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools. -Marguerite Yourcenar, novelist (8 Jun 1903-1987)





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