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sanguinolent

[ sang-gwin-l-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to blood.
  2. containing or tinged with blood; bloody.


sanguinolent

/ æŋˈɡɪəəԳ /

adjective

  1. containing, tinged with, or mixed with blood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܾԴDZԳ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·ܾo·· noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of sanguinolent1

1400–50; < Latin sanguinolentus, equivalent to sanguin- stem of sanguis blood + -olentus earlier form of -ulentus -ulent
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of sanguinolent1

C15: from Latin sanguinolentus, from sanguis blood
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Example Sentences

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American artist Jenny Holzer used blood donated by eight German and Yugoslav women volunteers in her design for the cover, a black page with a white card glued to it carrying the sanguinolent message: "Anywhere women are dying, I am wide awake."

In order to relate how he has been unmercifully whipped by shepherds he declares: "Yet hath not the pulchritude of my vertues protected me from the contaminating hands of these Plebeians; for comming, solummodo to have parted their sanguinolent fray, they yeelded me no more reverence, than if I had beene some pecorius asinus."

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Examination, on the 26th April.—Pericardium sound, but contained much sanguinolent serum.

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But I will remain steadfast to my philosophy, and if I am condemned to the said sanguinolent couch, I will do my best to derive from it the utmost enjoyment possible.

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A grandiloquence that sways uneasily between rodomontade and mere verbiage, a rotundity of diction, a choice of subjects which can only be described as sanguinolent, the use of the bludgeon where others would prefer a rapier.

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