sanguinary
English
Etymology
From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: san‧gui‧nar‧y
Adjective
sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)
- (of an event) Involving bloodshed.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview):
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XIII, in Allan Quatermain[1]:
- " […] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
- 1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview):
- (of a person) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
- Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherous, slaughterous
- c. 1730 William Broome:
- Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.
- 1877, Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia[2], page 126:
- "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […] "
- Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
- Synonyms: bloodsoaked, bloody, gory
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
- 1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI:
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […] , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 117):
- We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with sanguine. Sanguine can mean “optimistic”, while sanguinary means “bloodthirsty, gory”.
Related terms
Translations
accompanied by bloodshed
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eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty
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consisting of or similar to blood
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Noun
sanguinary (plural sanguinaries)
- A bloodthirsty person.
- The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).
Translations
bloodthirsty person
Achillea millefolium — see common yarrow
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