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Where does “aveuglement volontaire” come from?

aveuglement volontaire (French) comes from French aveuglement, from French aveugle, from French aveugler, from French aveuglé, from Middle French aveugle, from Old French avogle, from Latin ab oculis, from Gaulish exsops — out; from, out of.

aveuglement volontaire (French): willful ignorance

Definitions

  1. willful ignorance

Ancestry of “aveuglement volontaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchaveuglementblindness
2FrenchaveugleUnable to see; blind; A blind man or woman;...
3Frenchaveuglerto blind
4Frenchaveuglépast participle of aveugler; blinded
5Middle Frenchaveugle—
6Old Frenchavogleblind; blind person; inflection of avogler: ##...
7Latinab oculisblind
8Gaulishexsops—
9Proto-Celticexs-out
10Proto-Indo-Europeaneǵʰsout; from, out of
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