Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Thirst for blood; a propensity for shedding blood; a desire to slay.
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- noun The characteristic of being
bloodthirsty .
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- noun a disposition to shed blood
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Examples
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As regards the question of Cetywayo's bloodthirstiness, which is so strenuously denied by his apologists, I cannot say that a careful study of the blue books bearing on the subject brings me to the same conclusion.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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He wanted her to call his bloodthirstiness bravery and his cruelty devotion.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
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To free these tribes from their bloodthirstiness was the greatest kindness, and to coerce and restrain them was a true mercy.
Some Answered Questions 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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They seemed rather to be enjoying themselves, displaying a kind of bloodthirstiness which I had not as yet witnessed.
Archive 2008-01-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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"bloodthirstiness" of a mate who was, after all, but a normal girl of that day, and who, girl as she was, never for a moment faltered in the high courage with which she threw herself into that combat, responding to the passionate urge for freedom in her blood that not five centuries of inhuman persecution could subdue?
The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914
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His viciousness is amped to naked bloodthirstiness.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin Paul Slansky 2011
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For that we can thank the fortitude of American forces under George Washington, the siegecraft of French troops of Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, the count of Rochambeau - and the relentless bloodthirstiness of female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquitoes.
Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War J.R. McNeill 2010
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For that we can thank the fortitude of American forces under George Washington, the siegecraft of French troops of Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, the count of Rochambeau - and the relentless bloodthirstiness of female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquitoes.
Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War J.R. McNeill 2010
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His viciousness is amped to naked bloodthirstiness.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin Paul Slansky 2011
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His viciousness is amped to naked bloodthirstiness.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin Paul Slansky 2011
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December 19, 2008
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December 19, 2008