Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who sheds blood; a murderer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
sheds blood ; amurderer .
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Examples
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And first I shall shewe the occasions that moued this cruell bloodshedder, enemie of our holy Christian faith, Sultan Soliman, now being great Turke, to come with a great hoste by sea and by lande, to besiege and assayle the space of sixe moneths, night and day, the noble and mightie citie of Rhodes, the yere of the incarnation of our Lord Iesu
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He that taketh away his neighbor's living slaveth him, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire is a bloodshedder.
Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies' Alice J. Knight
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-- But the poor simple bairn himsell, that had nae mair knowledge of the wickedness of human nature than a calf has of a flesher's gully, he threepit to see the auld hardened bloodshedder, and trysted wi 'him to meet wi' some of the gang at an hour certain that same day, and awa he gaed to keep tryst, but since that hour naebody ever has set een on him.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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And first I shall shewe the occasions that moued this cruell bloodshedder, enemie of our holy
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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But the poor simple bairn himsell, that had nae mair knowledge of the wickedness of human nature than a calf has of a flesher’s gully, he threepit to see the auld hardened bloodshedder, and trysted wi’ him to meet wi’ some of the gang at an hour certain that same day, and awa he gaed to keep tryst, but since that hour naebody ever has set een on him. —
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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&c. Particularly punisheth the bloodshedder, vii. 225, &c.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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As-Seffah, (_the bloodshedder_, the surname of the first Abbaside khalif,) in every province of the empire. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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“He that taketh away his neighbour’s living, slayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.”
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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