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hood wink
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Hood-winkverb
Etymology: hood and wink.
They willingly hood-winking themselves from seeing his faults, he often abused the virtue of courage to defend his foul vice of injustice. Philip Sidney.
We will bind and hood-wink him so, that he shall suppose he is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries. William Shakespeare.
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Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,
And yet seem cold, the time you may so hood-wink. William Shakespeare.Then she who hath been hood-wink’d from her birth,
Doth first herself within death’s mirrour see. Davies.So have I seen, at Christmas sports, one lost,
And, hood-wink’d, for a man embrace a post. Ben Jonson.Satan is fain to hood-wink those that are apt to start. Decay of Piety.
Prejudice so dexterously hood-winks mens minds as to keep them in the dark, with a belief that they are more in the light. John Locke.
Must I wed Rodogune?
Fantastick cruelty of hood-wink’d chance! Nicholas Rowe.On high, where no hoarse winds or clouds resort,
The hood-wink’d goddess keeps her partial court. Samuel Garth.Be patient; for the prize, I’ll bring thee to,
Shall hood-wink this mischance. William Shakespeare, Tempest.She delighted in infamy, which often she had used to her husband’s shame, filling all mens ears, but his, with reproach; while he, hood-winked with kindness, least of all men knew who struck him. Philip Sidney.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hood wink in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hood wink in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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