Unsight
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unsight is a noun meaning Absence of sight; lack of vision.
Meaning
Absence of sight; lack of vision.
More Meanings
- (transitive, rare) To remove the sight of or from
- (firearms) To lose sight on a target
Example Sentences
Her robes shimmered with wards of unsight stitched in electrum thread.
He tries to correct this unsight in the second stanza, asking a series of speculative (and rhetorical) questions about his cousin's life.
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.
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).
Word Forms
- unsights
- unsighting
- unsighted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unseeing, eyeless, sightless, stone-blind, sand-blind, purblind.
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