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sanguinolent
[ sang-gwin-l-uhnt ]
adjective
- of or relating to blood.
- containing or tinged with blood; bloody.
sanguinolent
/ sæŋˈɡwɪnələnt /
adjective
- containing, tinged with, or mixed with blood
Derived Forms
- sanˈguinolency, noun
Other Words From
- san·guino·len·cy noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of sanguinolent1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sanguinolent1
Example Sentences
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."
Examination, on the 26th April.—Pericardium sound, but contained much sanguinolent serum.
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.
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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