sanguinary

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  1. adjective Accompanied by bloodshed.
  2. adjective Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty.
  3. adjective Consisting of blood.

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  • At the time of Madame Pfeiffer's visit, the sovereign of Madagascar was Queen Ranavala, memorable for her sanguinary propensities, her hatred of Europeans, and her persecution of the Christian converts. —  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer
  • Let it suffice to say, that they comprised whatever is ludicrous, sanguinary, and licentious, and that such examples were but too successful in procuring imitators. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
  • He cried peace, peace! but had not a word of blame for the sanguinary acts of the King of Naples, a word of sympathy for the victims of Lombardy. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • If the persecution of this department has not been sanguinary, * it should be remembered, that it has been covered with prisons; and that the extreme submission of its inhabitants would scarcely have furnished the most merciless tyrant with a pretext for a severer regimen. — * There were some priests guillotined at Amiens, but the circumstance was concealed from me for some months after it happened. — —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
  • The meetings of conspirators were attended not only by the Girondin leaders, to whom Madame Roland had recently added a new recruit, a young barrister from the South, named Barbaroux, remarkable for his personal beauty, and, as was soon seen, for a pitiless hardness of heart, and energetic delight in deeds of cruelty that, even in that blood-thirsty company, was equaled by few; with them met all those as yet most notorious for ferocity — Danton and Legendre, the founders of the Cordeliers; Marat, daily, in his obscene and blasphemous newspaper, clamoring for wholesale bloodshed; Santerre, odious as the sanguinary leader of the very first outbreaks of the Revolution; Rotondo, already, as we have seen, detected in attempting to assassinate the queen; and Petion, who thus repaid her preference of him to La Fayette, which had placed him in the mayoralty, whose duties he was now betraying. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
 

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  1. Latin sanguinārius, from sanguis, sanguin-, blood.

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  1. = French sanguinaire = Spanish Portuguese Italian sanguinario, from Latin sanguinarius, sanguinaris, pertaining to blood, from sanguis (sanguin-), blood: see sang.
 

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/ˈsæŋgwɪnəri/
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