Blind-nes

根据古英语词典：

blind-nes

Add: I. physical, (1) of persons, (a) where faculty of vision is absent :-- Hire eágan ðýstredon, ꝥ heó nǽnigne dǽl leóhtes scíman geseón mihte, Mid þý heó sum fæc on blindnesse wæs, Bd. 4, 10; Sch. 401, 12. Ofslegene (slegene, 29) mid blindnesse, Bl. H. 153, 17. (b) inability to see because of darkness :-- Ðá ýttran þeóstru sind þæs líchaman blindnyssa wiðútan .. . Hé bið wiðútan áblend, and ǽlces leóhtes bedǽled, Hml. Th. i. 132, 10. (2) of darkness, obscurity :-- Ic wæs mid þá blindnesse þára þýstra útan betýned, Bd. 5, 12; Sch. 621, 22. II. figurative, (1) of persons :-- Hé þurh þá menniscan gecynd úre stefne blindnysse gehýreþ, Bl. H. 19, 28. Eal þis mennisce cyn wæs on blindnesse, seoþþan þá ǽrestan men ásceofene wǽron of gefeán neorxna wanges, 17, 14. Ðá inran þeóstru sind þæs módes blindnyssa wiðinnan, Hml. Th. i. 130, 11. (2) of a condition :-- Wé habbaþ nédþearfe ꝥ wé ongyton þá blindnesse úre ælþeódignesse, Bl. H. 23, 2. blind-nes