sanguinously

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sanguine +‎ -ous +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

sanguinously (comparative more sanguinously, superlative most sanguinously)

  1. Synonym of sanguinely
    • 1776, N. D. FALCK, A treatise on the medical qualities of mercury, etc, page 301:
      Now where can we meet with more relief from art in this case than from mercury? --And whilst practice confirms. such a theory, I think we can have no greater inducement to put it into execution; and, for my own part, I am sanguinously persuaded many lives will in future be saved by it, who otherwise must be lost.
    • 1894 January, W.H. Holmes, “Caribbean Influence in the Prehistoric Art of Southern States”, in American Anthropologist, volume A7, number 1:
      Neither of these figures exactly duplicates any of the Fiorida-Georgia designs, but comparison makes it clear that analogies in features of motive, grouping, and execution are remarkably close--too close certainly to have arisen save through identity or most intimate relationship, socially or sanguinously, of the peoples employing them.
    • 2001 July 13, Voltair, “Conservative Nazis Group”, in rec.music.industrial[1] (Usenet):
      Most arabs are some fiery tempered, sanguinously passionate motherfuckers, and that translates into more suicide bombings than the average honkey.