unsight

noun

1. (uncountable)Absence of sight; lack of vision

   “He tries to correct this unsight in the second stanza, asking a series of speculative (and rhetorical) questions about his cousin's life.”

   “[...] as dame in her dwelling, whereby I may picture her there; And in vain do I urge my unsight To conceive my lost prize At her close, whom I knew when her dreams were upbrimming with light, And with laughter her eyes.”

   “Her robes shimmered with wards of unsight stitched in electrum thread.”

verb

1. (rare, transitive)To remove the sight of or from

   “The veil thus marks out the objects of both sexual and metaphysical desire as 'Scheingestalten'. A similar veil unsights the lover's gaze in Angelika as he perceives her 'wie durch einen Schleier' (S 1 116).”

2. To lose sight on a target

   “Just jeep as the Sten magazine emptied there came a single shot from the far end of the lane and in the same instant a bullet cracked over Butler's head.The jeep swung sharply to the right, unsighting him.”