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unsight en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From un- (“absence of”) + sight.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Absence of sight; lack of vision
   • Her robes shimmered with wards of unsight stitched in electrum thread. 2013, Peter V. Brett, The Daylight War - Page 566:
   • He tries to correct this unsight in the second stanza, asking a series of speculative (and rhetorical) questions about his cousin's life. 2012, Gregory Tate, The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870:
   • [...] as dame in her dwelling, whereby I may picture her there; And in vain do I urge my unsight To conceive my lost prize At her close, whom I knew when her dreams were upbrimming with light, And with laughter her eyes. 2013, Dr Rosemarie Morgan, The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy - Page 405:

unsight en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From un- + sight.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To remove the sight of or from
   • The veil thus marks out the objects of both sexual and metaphysical desire as 'Scheingestalten'. A similar veil unsights the lover's gaze in Angelika as he perceives her 'wie durch einen Schleier' (S 1 116). 1996, Andrew J. Webber, The Doppelgänger - Page 297:
2. To lose sight on a target
   • Just jeep as the Sten magazine emptied there came a single shot from the far end of the lane and in the same instant a bullet cracked over Butler's head.The jeep swung sharply to the right, unsighting him. 2012, Anthony Price, The '44 Vintage:

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