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Etymology

Etymology tree English bloody Middle English -ly English -ly English bloodily From bloody + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a bloody manner.
   • As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears. 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, “Queen of the Black Coast”, in Weird Tales:
   • No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil. 1907, Barbara Baynton, “Human Toll”, in Sally Krimmer, Alan Lawson, editors, Barbara Baynton: Bush Studies, Other Stories, Human Toll, Verse, Essays and Letters (Portable Australian Authors; UQP Australian Authors), St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 147:
   • Thus, we needn't bloodily and bodily slay a foe when we can startle, stifle, and, when need be, snuff out any flame of resistance to our will. 2010 October, Haha Lung with Christopher B. Prowant, Mind Warrior: Strategies for Total Mind Domination, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 2:
   • Sore against our will did we of Witchland join with the Demons in that war, foreseeing (as hath been bloodily approved) that the issue must be but the puffing up of the Demons, who desire no other thing than to be lords and tyrants of all the world. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 37:
   • In the center, Augur and Paine attacked with vigor and were bloodily repulsed when they struck what turned out to be the strongest point of the enemy line[…] 2009, Shelby Foote, The Civil War Volume II: Fredericksburg to Meridan, page 402:
   • The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.

Forms

Translations (5)

bg кръвожадно (in a bloody manner) · bg жестоко (in a bloody manner) · ca cruentament (in a bloody manner) · es sangrientamente (in a bloody manner) · fi verisesti (in a bloody manner)