sanguinary en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/ (US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.
Meanings
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(of an event) Involving bloodshed.
It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country. China had substantial grievances against the peninsula kingdom. In the year a.d. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.
1933, “The Korean War and the Closing Years a.d. 645–50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty, Cambridge University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:"[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XIII, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview)
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(of a person) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.
c. 1730, William Broome"The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]"
1877, Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia, page 126:
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Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […], that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI:We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 117:I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more sanguinary | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most sanguinary | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
sanguinary ant · sanguinariness · unsanguinary · sanguinarily
Relateds
sanguine · exsanguinate · sanguineous
Synonyms
bloody · gory · slaughterous · gory · bloodthirsty · bloody · bloodsoaked · butcherous · bloody-minded
Translations (47)
ro sangvin (consisting of or similar to blood) · mk крво́лочен (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · hy արյունարբու (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · hy արյունահեղ (accompanied by bloodshed) · ru кровожа́дный (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · cs krvežíznivý (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · ro sanguinar (accompanied by bloodshed) · hy արյունռուշտ (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · mk крво́жеден (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · fi verinen (consisting of or similar to blood) · ro sanguinar (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · pl krwawy (accompanied by bloodshed) · pl krwiożerczy (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · fr sanguin (consisting of or similar to blood) · ru крова́вый (accompanied by bloodshed) · ga fuilbheartach (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · bg кървав (consisting of or similar to blood) · pt sanguinário (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · ru кровопроли́тный (accompanied by bloodshed) · cs krvelačný (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · mt demmi (accompanied by bloodshed) · hy արյունոտ (consisting of or similar to blood) · sv blodig (accompanied by bloodshed) · mk крвопроле́вачки (accompanied by bloodshed) · mk кр́вав (consisting of or similar to blood) · cs krvavý (accompanied by bloodshed) · ga fuilchíocrach (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · kmr xwînawî (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · ru кровяно́й (consisting of or similar to blood) · pt sanguinário (accompanied by bloodshed) · kmr xwînawî (accompanied by bloodshed) · kmr bixwîn (consisting of or similar to blood) · ro sângeros (accompanied by bloodshed) · kmr xwînî (consisting of or similar to blood) · ga fuilteach (accompanied by bloodshed) · mt dmewwi (accompanied by bloodshed) · ro sângeros (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · pl krwawy (consisting of or similar to blood) · bg кръвопролитен (accompanied by bloodshed) · fi verenhimoinen (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · es sanguinario (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · sv blodtörstig (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · mt dmumi (accompanied by bloodshed) · sv blodig (consisting of or similar to blood) · bg кръвожаден (eager for bloodshed — see also bloodthirsty) · cs krvavý (consisting of or similar to blood) · hy արյունալի (accompanied by bloodshed)