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Meanings of wilful blindness in English

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Usage of wilful blindness in English
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If it approached to sacrilege, may the wilful blindness be forgiven!
Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2
2
What unworthy motives of wilful blindness and arrogance he is attributing to the Nonconformists!
Red Pottage
3
There is no halt to be looked for, no tranquillity in renunciation and wilful blindness.
Doctor Pascal
4
I am not blind to your pretty, wilful blindness.
What Can She Do?
5
The privatisation of asylum seeker housing has led to allegations of corruption, incompetence and wilful blindness.
The Guardian
6
To watch its workings and then doubt the God who made it is sheet wilful blindness.
Red Pepper Burns
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And I pray God, if this be wilful blindness, that He may enlighten me before too late.
Catriona
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He accused them stoutly of wilful blindness, of cowardice, of bullying, of Pharisaism, and of other sins.
Clayhanger
9
But truth is always the strongest and they soon become the solitary dupes of their own wilful blindness.
Common Sense, How to Exercise It
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It is equally remote from the misleading side-lights of the pessimist and from the wilful blindness of the optimist.
Americans and Others
11
Sylvia was asking no questions of fate or the future, accepting the present with wilful blindness to its impermanence.
The Bent Twig
12
A court heard the men had acted "under the noses" of the authorities who showed "almost wilful blindness".
BBC
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But, as in many marriages, Greece's entry into the euro was a triumph of sentimentality and wilful blindness over realism.
The Guardian
14
One cause of this is the wilful blindness and silly gasconade of some of those who lead and form public opinion.
Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
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It said the lower court should consider whether YouTube showed " wilful blindness" in letting copyrighted videos remain on its website.
Reuters
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I then heard for the first time the details of the disaster brought upon the French by General de Lorencez's wilful blindness.
Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Inte...
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