† bloodlyadj.
Obsolete.
= bloody adj. (in various senses).In later use apparently as a typographic error for bloody adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective]
bloodyeOE
bloodlyc1425
bloodthirsty1539
bloody-minded?1545
cannibal1555
blood-thirsting?1569
sanguinolent1577
blood-drinking1594
cannibalian1602
sword-minded1603
sanguisugous1615
sanguinary1623
sanguinarian1637
sanguinarious1654
sanguinous1663
sanguine1705
cannibalic?1795
cannibalish1796
cannibalistic1827
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [adjective]
bloodyeOE
bloodthirsty1539
bloody-minded?1545
cannibal1555
blood-thirsting?1569
bloodly1574
sanguinolent1577
blood-drinking1594
cannibalian1602
sword-minded1603
sanguisugous1615
sanguinary1623
sanguinarian1637
sanguinarious1654
sanguinous1663
sanguine1705
cannibalic?1795
cannibalish1796
cannibalistic1827
faggoty-minded1856
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 4886 (MED) He hilde his bloodly swerde on hond.
1574 Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. xlv This bloudly, cruell, and outragious attempt.
a1627 J. Horsey Trav. in E. A. Blood Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 257 The race of that bloudly generacion.
1658 G. Fox Papists Strengths, Princ. & Doctr. 34 Witness your bloodly massacring, torturing, racking..and murdering many thousands since the dayes of the Apostles.
1705 R. Blackmore Eliza ii. 45 Bloodly Banners stream denouncing War.
1764 J. Wilson Earl Douglas (rev. ed.) v. ii. 77 But Ah! must I resign these lovely necks T'a mangling bloodly ax!
1859 Hansard Commons 28 July 548/2 Those affairs..which in 1859 were the causes of that short but very bloodly war.
1927 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 132 17/2 Since 1919 most of us have read the news of Russia with a bloodly picture of the revolution in our minds.
2005 Congress. Rec. 7 Nov. 25018/2 The province witnessed such a bloodly war in 2001-2002 that killed around 1000 people from both communities.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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