Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A making or becoming blind; blindness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of making blind, or the state of being blind.

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  • noun The act of making blind, or the state of being blind.

Etymologies

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Latin occaecatio, from occaecare to make blind; ob + caecare to blind, from caecus blind.

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  • The act of making blind, or the state of being blind.

    December 10, 2007