| 释义 |
visionless, a.|ˈvɪʒənlɪs|
[f. vision n.]
1. Destitute of vision; sightless, blind.
1820Keats Hyperion i. 243 Half-closed, and visionless entire they seem'd Of all external things. 1848Eliza Cook Song for Dog iv, Tis my Dog that I trust to,..And he ministers well to my visionless eyes. 1874G. Macdonald Malcolm III. xxii. 294 Her eyes rolled stupid and visionless.
2. Having no vision of unseen things; devoid of higher insight or inspiration.
1856R. S. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. x. ii. Notes 316 Theresa might, in the abstract, rate the visionless altitude above the valley of vision. 1859Bp. S. Wilberforce Addr. Ordination ix. 182 The hindrances to our delivering simply our message may lead us to suppress or tamper with it until we become visionless and dumb. 1891N. Loraine Battle of Belief 181 His cheerless, shoreless, visionless system of negations. |