Careful Words

deaf (n.)

deaf (v.)

deaf (adj.)

  They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Old Testament: Psalm lviii. 4, 5.

In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.

Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee

That wilfully will neither heare nor see?

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

  None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Psalm lviii.