Definition of Bloodthirstiness

1. Noun. A disposition to shed blood.

Exact synonyms: Bloodiness
Generic synonyms: Disposition, Temperament
Derivative terms: Bloody, Bloodthirsty

Definition of Bloodthirstiness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being bloodthirsty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodthirstiness

bloodsticks
bloodstock
bloodstocks
bloodstone
bloodstones
bloodstream
bloodstreams
bloodstroke
bloodsucker
bloodsuckers
bloodsucking
bloodthirst
bloodthirstier
bloodthirstiest
bloodthirstily
bloodthirstiness
bloodthirsty
bloodulf
bloodwit
bloodwite
bloodwites
bloodwits
bloodwood
bloodwood tree
bloodwoods
bloodwork
bloodworm
bloodworms
bloodwort
bloodwort family

Literary usage of Bloodthirstiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Their History, Resources and Prospects by Matthew Macfie (1865)
"... Thunder and Lightning — Religious Beliefs of the Fishing Tribes — Treachery and Bloodthirstiness of the Indians—Massacres of Whites—Exciting Encounter ..."

2. With Wilson in Matabeleland, Or, Sport and War in Zambesia by C. H. W. Donovan (1894)
"... I have had the opportunity of a conversation with a very influential man in London, and as I waxed excited over the brutality and bloodthirstiness of ..."

3. The Mission of the Comforter & Other Sermons with Notes by Julius Charles Hare (1846)
"of cupidity, the love of ease and the anger at having that ease disturbed, hatred, revenge, bloodthirstiness, fraud, a host of traditionary prejudices, ..."

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