sanguine

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  1. adjective Of the color of blood; red.
  2. adjective Of a healthy reddish color; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
  3. adjective Archaic Having blood as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.
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  • She can not feel very sanguine, the mischievous folks having such an interest in perverting every thing, and in hindering every thing which, is reasonable, and such means of doing so; but at the moment the number of ill-intentioned people is diminished, or at least the right-thinking of all classes and of all ranks are more united ... —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • So sanguine were they, or rather was she, of success, that she had even taken into consideration the principles on which future ministries should be constituted; and here for the first time she speaks of herself as chiefly concerned in planning the future arrangements. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • He is too sanguine, as it appears to me, but his aim is worthy, and, with his courage and clear intellect, his experiment will not, at least to him, be a failure. ' —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • But he owed money not as a needy man does, but as one who is speculative, sanguine, and quite confident of his own resources. —  The Life of Cicero
  • Other honest friends of Greece were less sanguine, and more disposed to urge caution upon Lord Cochrane. —  The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French sanguin, from Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, sanguin-, blood.

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  1. Early modern English also sanguin; from Middle English sanguin, sangwine, sangwyne, sangwein, from Old French (and F.) sanguin = Provencal sanguini = Old Catalan sangui = Spanish sanguino, sanguíneo = Portuguese sanguineo, sanguinho = Italian sanguigno, sanguineo (cf. D. G. sanguinisch = Danish sangvinsk = Swedish sangvinisk), from Latin sanguineus, of blood, consisting of blood, bloody, bloodthirsty, blood-colored, red, from sanguis (sanguin-), blood: see sang.
  2. from Middle Latin sanguinare, transitive, stain with blood, bleed, Latin sanguinare, intransitive, be bloody, bleed, from sanguis (sanguin-), blood: see sang, sanguine, adjective
 

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