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bloody-handed en · ADJ

Etymology

From bloody + handed.

Meanings

1. Having hands that have blood on them.
   • Secondly there would have been blood transferred to Dr. Sheppard's hand and fingers by the bloody-handed killer as he removed Dr. Sheppard's wristwatch and ring. 2000, Keith Inman, Norah Rudin, Principles and Practice of Criminalistics: The Profession of Forensic Science, →ISBN, page 186:
2. Murderous, guilty of or prone to violence or atrocities.
   • Then taking Congè of that virgin pure, The bloody-handed babe unto her truth Did earnestly committ, and her conjure, In vertuous lore to traine his tender youth, And all that gentle noriture ensueth 1758, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Canto 3):
   • Here, student, some man or woman kills living beings and is murderous, bloody-handed, given to blows and violence, merciless to living beings. 2008, Dennis Candy, Peace in the Buddha's Discourses: A Compilation and Discussion, →ISBN, page 18:

Forms

Deriveds

bloody-handedness · bloody-handedly