[f. prec. + -NESS.]
1. Bleared condition.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. clxxxv. (1495), 726. The dronklew mannes … eyen ben full of whelkes and pymples and of bleryednesse.
c. 1475. Found. St. Barthol. Hosp., II. i. (1886), 81. This man putte a syde bleriednes of yen.
1563. T. Gale, Antidot., II. 36. It amendeth the blearednes, and consumeth the teares.
transf. 1881. W. Russell, Ocean Free L., I. v. 195. There was a haziness about the azure, a blearedness resembling the film on a sick man’s eyes.
2. fig. Affection of the mental or moral vision.
1678. R. Barclay, Apol. Quakers, V. § 21. 165. The Blearedness of the Eyes of our Minds.
1851. S. Judd, Margaret, III. (1871), 401. Will unkindness, traducement, insinuation, bleardness never cease?
