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bloodless, a.|ˈblʌdlɪs|
[f. blood n. + -less.]
1. Without blood; hence, lifeless; also fig.
a1225St. Marher. 18 Blodles ant banles, dumbe ant deaue. 1552Huloet, Bloudles, or wythout bloude. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 7 Thou bloodlesse Remnant of that Royall Blood. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. iii. xiii. 256 These things..do befall wounds, exiccated by the Suns heat..insomuch that they are left bloudless. 1881Internat. Rev. XI. 76 A slave to a dry and bloodless system.
b. Pale from a diminished supply of blood to the surface of the body; pallid.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 1037 Overcome by doubt and bloodless fear. 1593― 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 162 A timely-parted Ghost, Of ashy semblance, meager, pale and bloodlesse. 1718Pope Iliad xiii. 365 He stands..a bloodless image of despair. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 45 She knotted her hands behind her In a knot of bloodless gray.
2. Not attended with bloodshed.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. v. 117 Silence like a Lucresse knife: With bloodlesse stroke my heart doth gore. 1604Hieron Wks. I. 569 How can a masse a pardon bring, Sith 'tis a bloud-lesse offering? 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 119 A bloodless victory.
Hence ˈbloodlessly adv., ˈbloodlessness.
1820Byron Mar. Fal. v. iii. 48 She..Shall..bloodlessly and basely yield Unto a bastard Attila. 1863Le Fanu House by Churchy. (ed. 2) III. 174 Glaring bloodlessly at the justice. 1883M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf xxviii. 329 Hands almost transparent in their bloodlessness. |