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cold blood en · NOUN
Meanings
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(qualifier:obsolete outside the phrase in cold blood, uncountable) A state of mild or low emotions, previously understood as a condition whereby the blood has not been appreciably heated by emotional intensity.
Farwell faint-hearted and degenerate King, / In whose cold blood no sparke of Honor bides.
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Deriveds
in cold blood · cold-blooded