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BLINDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis
Example:
he picked a wife blindly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
blind (not based on reason or evidence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Without seeing or looking
Example:
he felt around his desk blindly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
blind (unable to see)
Context examples:
To such an extent was he tormented, that he hated blindly and without the faintest spark of reason.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You shall be commander of the expedition, and I'll obey blindly, will that satisfy you? said Jo, with a sudden change from perversity to lamblike submission.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When he put up his arms, each day, to begin, they pained exquisitely, and the first few blows, struck and received, racked his soul; after that things grew numb, and he fought on blindly, seeing as in a dream, dancing and wavering, the large features and burning, animal-like eyes of Cheese-Face.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He had entered the fog to windward of the steamer, and while the steamer had blindly driven on into the fog in the chance of catching him, he had come about and out of his shelter and was now running down to re-enter to leeward.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When I had groped my way, blindly, through these difficulties, and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyptian Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket, stood for disadvantageous.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The light drew them as if they were plants; the chemistry of the life that composed them demanded the light as a necessity of being; and their little puppet-bodies crawled blindly and chemically, like the tendrils of a vine.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
How she did it, she never knew, but for the next few minutes she worked as if possessed, blindly obeying Laurie, who was quite self-possessed, and lying flat, held Amy up by his arm and hockey stick till Jo dragged a rail from the fence, and together they got the child out, more frightened than hurt.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They sank lower and lower into the muddy abyss, back into the dregs of the raw beginnings of life, striving blindly and chemically, as atoms strive, as the star-dust of the heavens strives, colliding, recoiling, and colliding again and eternally again.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He was mad for the moment; tearing out his hair, beating his head, trying to force me from him, and to force himself from me, not answering a word, not looking at or seeing anyone; blindly striving for he knew not what, his face all staring and distorted—a frightful spectacle.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
