单词 | blood selling |
释义 | > as lemmasblood selling blood selling adj. and n. †(a) adj. that betrays or informs against a person for gain; cf. sell v. 2a (obsolete); (b) n. the action or practice of selling blood. ΚΠ 1789 Oracle 12 Sept. 3/3 The first of those blood-selling thieves, the Justices' runners, that I meet with, I will cut his liver and lights out. 1836 T. Gaspey Self-condemned xx. 121 Thy blood-selling prototype, Judas. 1882 W. Marshall Strange Chapman II. xxi. 289 Thah blood-selling coward! 1915 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 8 Jan. 16/2 (heading) Blood selling profession. 1994 Virginia Law Rev. 80 1473 Another objection to allowing blood selling is that the quality of the blood supply would be reduced due to the type of people likely to sell their blood. 2010 M. Womack Anthropol. of Health & Healing i. 28 The Chinese government outlawed blood selling in 1998. < as lemmas |
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