sanguineness
- a word derived from sanguine.
Example Sentences
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But it is the next interest rate decision on 9 May that may explain Mr Sunak's sanguineness.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024
Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called.
From Time Magazine Archive
The real cost he believed would frighten possible investors and with the peculiar sanguineness of the short-sighted, he thought that it would work out somehow.
From The Lady Doc by Lockhart, Caroline
Dorothy had begun to hope that Harry's news might be true, but even Harry's sanguineness began to give way: the pertinacity with which the young master remained at home threw a damp on their expectations.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
One man had died, perhaps half-a-dozen more were invalids, but the rest were strong and hearty: to be sure, we all lacked much of that sanguineness which had animated us hitherto.
From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Osborn, Sherard
