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in cool blood
b. spec. Of the blood, as the seat of a person's emotions or passions (cf. blood n. 11). Frequently in in cool blood: without excitement; (esp. with reference to violent or cruel action) not in the heat of passion, with calm deliberation; = in cold blood at cold blood n.In quot. OE: lacking potency.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > cold-bloodedly
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cold-bloodedly1838
OE Sedulius Glosses (Royal 15 B.xix) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 38 Frigidus col [L. prolemque negebat frigidus annoso moriens in corpore sanguis].
a1500 Consail & Teiching Vys Man (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 77 Weng [= venge] nocht quhil thi blud be cule.
1606 J. Marston Parasitaster i. i. sig. A4 How cooler bloud wil behaue it selfe in this busines, would I haue an only testimony.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xxv. 203 Blasphemies vttered in coole bloud without choler, passion or heate of affection.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 77 We should not when the blood was cool, haue threatend Our Prisoners with the Sword. View more context for this quotation
1658 Whole Duty of Man (1684) 86 That without any provocation at all, in cool bloud, as they say, they can thus wrong their poor brethren.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 229 Those very Wretches who..with unheard of Butcheries, had massacred so many Thousands of English in cool Blood.
1768 J. Wesley Let. Dec. (1931) V. 377 Notwithstanding all the tragical exclamations which have been made concerning it, what is this to the killing a man in cool blood?
1838 J. H. Ingraham Burton II. ii. 33 General Washington..has a good deal of the lion's irritability.., and your own blood is not over cool.
1881 Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback ii. v. 72 No horse that ever was foaled could do it [sc. a big leap] in cool blood.
1903 Times 22 Sept. 9/1 When it is considered in cool blood it must be admitted..not to constitute in any sense an attack upon the present political régime.
1915 T. Roosevelt Amer. & World War ii. 26 The rights and wrongs of these cases where nations violate the rules of morality..can be precisely determined only when all the facts are known and when men's blood is cool.
1988 Polity 20 685 The murder in cool blood of whole political classes which Machiavelli seems to admire.
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