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blur (n.)
1540s, "smear on the surface of writing;" perhaps akin to
blear
. Extended sense of "confused dimness" is from 1860.
blur (v.)
1580s, and thus probably from
blur
(n.), but the dates are close and either might be the original. Related:
Blurred
;
blurring
.