bloodthirstn.
/ˈblʌdˌθəːst/, U.S. /ˈblədˌθərst/ Thirst for blood, eagerness for bloodshed.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bloodthirstiness > [noun]
bloodthirstiness?1568
bloodthirst1574
cannibalism1634
bloody-mindedness1638
sanguinolency1664
sanguinariness1689
acharnement1756
cannibality1796
bloodlust1848
sanguinolence1891
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [noun]
bloodthirstiness?1568
bloodthirst1574
cannibalism1634
bloody-mindedness1638
sanguinolency1664
sanguinariness1689
acharnement1756
bloodlust1848
sanguinolence1891
1574 J. Higgins 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates Manlius f. 36 Bloudthirste cries for vengeaunce at his hande.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ii. xxiv. 98 Sylla['s]..good beginnings lifted him vp vnto such intollerable pride, and blood-thirst, that afterwards they all acknowledged Marius as a meeke lambe in respect of him.
1665 T. Mall Cloud of Witnesses 302 God cannot, and undoubtedly will not for ever suffer their abominable lying false doctrine, their hypocrisie, blood-thirst, whoredome, idleness.
a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1765) II. 702/1 The first, their water turn'd to blood, Their blood thirst to requite.
1804 T. Brown Poems 66 Sweet as rise the groans around, Fiercer let thy blood-thirst burn!
1882 C. L. Brace Gesta Christi 273 It could control..the passions and hate and blood-thirst of men.
1929 Boys' Life Oct. 6/3 Before the echo has died away, the great army of 53,000, among whom there is no hate or blood thirst, begin their splendid march.
1989 New Yorker 18 Sept. 109/2 They became criminals themselves, killing for land and money and bloodthirst.
2009 M. Janan Refl. in Serpent's Eye ii. 68 When Alcmaeon murders his mother to punish her betrayal of his father, their acts reveal how easily bloodthirst can cohabit with duty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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