With lenient balm may Oberon hence To fairy land be driven, With every herb that blunts the sense Mankind received from heaven.
Defn: That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
This excess in tobacco produces a narcotic effect which temporarily blunts the craving for alcohol.
It seems to give one companionship when one has none, something to do when one is bored, keeps one from feeling hungry when one is hungry, and blunts the edge of hardship and worry.
An opiate, of course, never removes the cause of any physical trouble, but merely blunts the pain due to it; and it does this by tying up the functions of the body.
If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd, Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.
By midsummer the Hendersons were settled in Lenox, where the Blunts had long been, and Miss Tavish and her party of friends were at Bar Harbor.
We are not responsible for either the Hendersons or the Blunts being in the world.
The Blunts and the Van Dams and the Chesneys and the Tavishes and Mrs. Henderson had called, invitations had poured in, subscriptions were asked, studies and gayeties were projected, and the real business of life was under way.
Because it hardens the heart and blunts the tender feelings of mankind 2 II.
Long absence from feminine societyblunts a man's critical faculties, and Robinson Crusoe must have thought all women beautiful.
It is ignorance posing as education that first blunts those instincts, dogma disguised as religion and hypocrisy misnamed 'good behaviour.
Barren my wit, If voluble and sharpe discourse be mar'd, Vnkindnesse blunts it more then marble hard.
The Blunts lost all their property and in Paris there are various ways of making a little money, without actually breaking anything.
Now, it is quite allowable that occasionally, and in portions of his picture, a great artist should indulge himself in this luxury of sketching, yet it is a perilous luxury; it blunts the feeling and weakens the hand.
He ought not, however, to repeat the same subjects so frequently, as the casting about of the mind for means of varying them blunts the feelings to truth.
Yet the desire to punish ourselves has a natural antagonist in our general aversion to pain, and this often blunts the sting of the conscience.
The more a person habituates himself to virtue the more he {16} sharpens its sting, the deeper he sinks in vice the more he blunts it.
But repentance not only blunts the edge of moral indignation and recommends the offender to the mercy of men and gods: it is the sole ground on which pardon can be given by a scrupulous judge.
Oh, blest content, and lowly life That blunts Ambition's biting sting Unknown to thee the bitter strife, Which proud refinements often bring.
That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
That Moses hangs like a dead weight upon him, and blunts all his zeal for enquiry; for that really he has not the conscience to make his mountain so young as that prophet makes the world.
We did not at first attend to the cause, nor recollect that we had now passed through ten or twelve thousand feet of gross vapour, that blunts and confuses every ray before it reaches the surface of the earth.
I began to doubt the value of the "culture" thatblunts the natural instincts.
We have seen instances of this in illustrating the maxim that custom blunts sensibility (p.
In his company the Blunts set out from Damascus, and travelled across the Syrian desert by the Wadi Sirhan to Jauf.
We had, of course, a few blunts and eagle arrows in the lot.
About half of these are good broad-heads and the rest are blunts or odd scraps to be shot away at birds on the wing, at marks, or some are shot in pure exhilaration across deep canyons.
He had worried much at how the Blunts would look upon his abrupt action, and of his sudden avoidance of their home.
Stonewell went out into the city of Annapolis, direct to where the Blunts lived.
Do you think you treated the Blunts very politely?
The danger of such a downright manner of going to work is that itblunts one's critical sense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blunts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
