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blondly

English

Etymology

blond +? -ly

Adverb

blondly (comparative more blondly, superlative most blondly)

  1. In a blond manner.
    • 1984, Samuel R. Delany, Carl Freedman, Stars in my pocket like grains of sand (page 85)
      I got chills, while on Clym's blondly hairy foot, a mechanical beetle with copper pincers crawled amidst tattooed green and yellow crenna roothairs, to disappear under his pants' cuff.

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blindly

English

Etymology

From Middle English blindly, blyndly, from Old English blindl??e (“in a blind manner; blindly; rashly”), equivalent to blind +? -ly. Cognate with Swedish blindligt (“blindly”), Icelandic blindlega (“blindly”). Compare also West Frisian blindich (“blindly”), Dutch blindelings (“blindly”), German blindlings (“blindly”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bla?ndli/

Adverb

blindly (comparative more blindly, superlative most blindly)

  1. In a blind manner; without sight; sightlessly.
    I stumbled blindly through the forest, branches whipping at my face.
  2. Without consideration or question.
    • 1940 March 19, Albert Einstein, letter to Morris Raphael Cohen
      The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

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