bloodinessn.
/ˈblʌdɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈblədinᵻs/ 1. The quality or condition of involving bloodshed; tendency to violence or killing; bloodthirstiness, cruelty.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [noun] > leading to bloodshed
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [noun] > tendency to bloodshed
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1542 tr. A. Geuffroy Order Greate Turckes Courte To Rdr. sig. *iiv Reade Mahumettes actes who so luste, and he shall fynde suche..such bloudynesse and crueltie..as in the chiefest membre of Antichrist.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xix. xxiv. 784 What goodnesse they changed into bloudinesse.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Acts xv. 29 Do nothing that..savoureth of cruelty and bloodiness.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 156 War..carried on..with some circumstances of bloodiness.
1795 European Mag. & London Rev. Oct. 236/2 The general want of nature, the bombast, and the bloodiness of our modern Tragedies.
1884 Baily's Monthly Mag. June 275 The crimson lake around testified to the bloodiness of the strife.
1919 Soviet Russia 20 Sept. 14/2 I have no doubt that the bloodiness of their régime has been exaggerated.
2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 July c1 Despite its bloodiness and the sexually charged interplay of the power-mad couple of the title, ‘Macbeth’ has been adapted by some book publishers as a story for children.
2. The quality or condition of containing, being marked with, or resembling blood.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > by blood
bloodiness?1550
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. E.iii Yf you drynke a drame of Betony with water, it wyll brynge downe & heale the cloudynes and bloudines of the eyes.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 10 And bloodynes of sides [of a horse].
1700 E. Ward Step to Stir-Bitch-Fair 16 The Bloodiness of their Spurs.
1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 183 Its Juice clears the Redness and Bloodiness of the Eyes.
1830 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 7 233 These had the effect of at once removing..the tenderness of the abdomen and the bloodiness of the stools.
1873 New York Med. Jrnl. Nov. 468 To the same cause, that is the cessation of the action of the kidneys, must be referred the remarkable bloodiness of the tissues.
1957 P. Williamson Pract. Use Office Lab. & X-ray ii. 38/2 As the concentration increases, the urine assumes a tobacco color and then progresses through red to frank bloodiness.
2010 New Yorker (Nexis) 12 Apr. 14 A huge slab of steak, also roasted, was notable..for the bloodiness of its center.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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