Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of or deficient in blood, as an animal; anemic. Also
exsanguineous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
exsanguious .
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- adjective Alternative form of
exsanguious .
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- adjective destitute of blood or apparently so
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Examples
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The muted light in the church suspended a filament between us, reproducing the exact atmosphere of an early seventeenth-century Spanish studio in which - tonsured, waxen, austere and exsanguinous - were bowed in prayer the models of Zurbarán and El Greco.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The muted light in the church suspended a filament between us, reproducing the exact atmosphere of an early seventeenth-century Spanish studio in which - tonsured, waxen, austere and exsanguinous - were bowed in prayer the models of Zurbarán and El Greco.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The muted light in the church suspended a filament between us, reproducing the exact atmosphere of an early seventeenth-century Spanish studio in which - tonsured, waxen, austere and exsanguinous - were bowed in prayer the models of Zurbarán and El Greco.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The muted light in the church suspended a filament between us, reproducing the exact atmosphere of an early seventeenth-century Spanish studio in which - tonsured, waxen, austere and exsanguinous - were bowed in prayer the models of Zurbarán and El Greco.
NPR Topics: News 2011
RevBrently commented on the word exsanguinous
From p. 14 of Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A Time to Keep Silence":
The muted light in the church suspended a filament between us, reproducing the exact atmosphere of an early seventeenth-century studio in which--tonsured, waxen, austere and exsanguinous--were bowed in prayer the models of Zurbarán and El Greco.
January 21, 2014