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unˈbloody, a.
[un-1 7. So OE. unblódiᵹ (once), = Du. onbloedig, G. unblutig, ON. úblóðigr, Da. ublodig, Sw. oblodig.]
1. Not attended with (much or any) bloodshed.
1544Betham Precepts War i. cxciv. I v, Nothynge is more profytable,..then by vnbloudye battayle to wynne the mastrye. 1553Brende Q. Curtius iv. 47 b, There were slaine of the Percians and Arabies ten thousand, and the victorye was not vnblodye vnto the Macedones. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 88 The Spartanes..esteemed more of an vnbloudy then a bloudy victory. 1654R. Codrington tr. Iustine v. 82 They fell not in a sluggish or an unbloody war, but fought to the last man. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. ii. Wks. 1851 V. 64 Petilius Cerealis..had to doe with the populous Brigantes in many Battails, and som of those, not unbloodie. 1870Bryant Iliad xvii. II. 177 The strife was not unbloody, though of Greeks There perished fewer.
2. Not involving the shedding of blood; not characterized by bloodshed.
1548[see b]. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663) 201 The unbloody and spiritual Sacrifices of prayers. 1590Swinburne Testaments 67 Verie likelie it is to bee vrged with more violent arguments..then by the vnbloodie blowes of bare words. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Magnif. 868 Here, many a Mars un-bloudy Combats fights. 1649Milton Eikon. ix. Wks. 1851 III. 402 Those many..corporal inflictions wherwith his raign also before this Warr was not unbloodie. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 26 Prohibiting the use of wine, and using only inanimate and unbloody sacrifices. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1822) I. 324 By the character of the age that disposition is systematized into little mischiefs and unbloody treacheries. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. 154/2 note, The cause of the unbloody termination of the crisis was more creditable to the rebel leaders. 1899A. T. Mahan Lessons of War with Spain, etc. (1900) iii. 106 Blockade..is but one form of the unbloody pressure brought to bear upon an enemy by interruption of his commerce.
b. Theol. Used with reference to the eucharist, esp. in the phrase unbloody sacrifice.
1548Geste Pr. Masse C vi b, Theyr auouching..our synnes clerely to be clensed wyth theyr vnsufferable & vnbloudye sacryfyce of christ. 1599Bp. Scott in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. App. x. 30 Manyfestly affirmynge Christe to be offered daylye after an unbloody manner. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 432 That unbloudy Sacrifice of the body and bloud of Christ, which is dayly exequuted by so many handes of sacrificing shavelinges. 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Marr. Clergy Conclusion, I leave my refuter..to the acting of his vnbloudie executions of the Sonne of God. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 71 S. Clem. Apost. calleth it a reasonable, unbloudy, and Mysticall Sacrament. 1712P. Metcalfe Life St. Winefride (1917) 23 Saint Beuno was preparing to offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of our Redemption. 1753Challoner Cath. Chr. Instr. 81 In the Sacrifice of the Altar he [Christ] only dies mystically, and therefore this is an unbloody Sacrifice. 1833J. Waterworth tr. Veron's Rule Cath. Faith 127 In this divine sacrifice..the same Christ is present and offered in an unbloody manner, who..offered himself in a bloody manner. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 595 To Malachi alone it was reserved to prophesy of the unbloody Sacrifice.
3. Not covered or smeared with blood. unbloody grave, that of one who has not died by bloodshed.
a15901st Pt. Contention E 3, Although the kyte soare with unbloodie beake. a1699J. Beaumont Psyche xvi. xciv, Prayers and Persuasions her Engins be, Prepared pure unbloody Bays to gain. 1733[see unbribed]. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xiv, You might yet lay your head on an unbloody pillow to-night. 1829― Anne of G. xx, As thou desirest to sleep in an unbloody grave, let me warn thee, that the secrets of this night shall remain with thee.
†4. Having no blood; bloodless. Obs.—1
1615Crooke Body of Man 258 All these kinds of generation are maimed and imperfect, and therfore the creatures so procreated, are called..vnbloodye and insectile creatures.
5. Not bloodthirsty; averse to bloodshed.
c1665Mrs. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846) 339 His unbloody nature desiring to spare the rest of the delinquents. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. I. 324 Such is the characteristic expression of this brave unbloody people.
Hence unˈbloodiness.
1851W. Anderson The Mass iv. 48 The unbloodiness of the Mass. |