a. [f. VISION sb.]
1. Destitute of vision; sightless, blind.
1820. Keats, Hyperion, I. 243. Half-closed, and visionless entire they seem’d Of all external things.
1848. Eliza Cook, Song for Dog, iv. Tis my Dog that I trust to,… And he ministers well to my visionless eyes.
1874. G. Macdonald, Malcolm, III. xxii. 294. Her eyes rolled stupid and visionless.
2. Having no vision of unseen things; devoid of higher insight or inspiration.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), II. X. ii. Notes 316. Theresa might, in the abstract, rate the visionless altitude above the valley of vision.
1859. Bp. S. Wilberforce, Addr. Ordination, ix. 182. The hindrances to our delivering simply our message may lead us to suppress or tamper with it until we become visionless and dumb.
1891. N. Loraine, Battle of Belief, 180–1. So deep and dominant is the instinct of worship that the unbeliever cannot ‘rest and be thankful’ in his cheerless, shoreless, visionless system of negations.
