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Definition of Bloodthirstiness
1. Noun. A disposition to shed blood.
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
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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