sanguinolent

[sang-gwin-l-uhnt]

adjective

1. of or relating to blood.

2. containing or tinged with blood; bloody.

sanguinolent

/ sæŋˈɡwɪnələnt /

adjective

1. containing, tinged with, or mixed with blood

Other Word Forms

• sanguinolency noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sanguinolent¹

1400–50; < Latin sanguinolentus, equivalent to sanguin- stem of sanguis blood + -olentus earlier form of -ulentus -ulent

Word History and Origins

Origin of sanguinolent¹

C15: from Latin sanguinolentus, from sanguis blood

Example Sentences

American artist Jenny Holzer used blood donated by eight German and Yugoslav women volunteers in her design for the cover, a black page with a white card glued to it carrying the sanguinolent message: "Anywhere women are dying, I am wide awake."

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In order to relate how he has been unmercifully whipped by shepherds he declares: "Yet hath not the pulchritude of my vertues protected me from the contaminating hands of these Plebeians; for comming, solummodo to have parted their sanguinolent fray, they yeelded me no more reverence, than if I had beene some pecorius asinus."

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Examination, on the 26th April.—Pericardium sound, but contained much sanguinolent serum.

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But I will remain steadfast to my philosophy, and if I am condemned to the said sanguinolent couch, I will do my best to derive from it the utmost enjoyment possible.

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A grandiloquence that sways uneasily between rodomontade and mere verbiage, a rotundity of diction, a choice of subjects which can only be described as sanguinolent, the use of the bludgeon where others would prefer a rapier.

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