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▪ I. bloodshedding, vbl. n.|ˈblʌdˌʃɛdɪŋ|
1. The shedding of blood, slaughter.
a1225Ancr. R. 50 Mid hore blodshedunge irudded & ireaded, ase þe martirs weren. 1297R. Glouc. 548 Þerafter com muche blodssedinge. 1494Fabyan v. lxxxvi. 64 The Kynge whiche is cruell and full of blode shedynge. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 108 These hands are free from guiltlesse bloodshedding. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi x. (1870) 384 With respect to blood-shedding, the morality of the Greeks of Homer was extremely loose.
†b. The shedding of one's own blood; submission to a bloody death. Cf. bloodshed 3. Obs.
a1533Frith Disput. Purgat. (1829) 136 Jesus Christ..hath delivered us through his blood-shedding. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 116 Y⊇ precious death, passion, blood⁓shedding, and obedience of Christe Jesus.
▪ II. ˈbloodˈshedding, ppl. a. rare.
That sheds blood, that causes death by bloodshed.
1633Costlie Whore iv. iii. in Bullen O. Pl., The halter, poyson, or bloodshedding blade. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. vii. 183 To deliver them with a blood-shedding vengeance. |