bloodthirster en · NOUN
Etymology
From blood + thirster.
Meanings
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A person who is bloodthirsty.
The Thermidorian majority disparaged the authoritarian revolutionary government and referred to the sans-culottes as "cannibals" and "bloodthirsters" for conspiring with the Jacobin "despots" in terrorizing middle-class citizens of both sexes, the honnêtes gens.
1980, Carol R. Berkin, Women, War, and Revolution, page 128:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bloodthirsters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |