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单词 sanguinary
释义

sanguinary

/ˈsanɡwɪn(ə)ri /
adjective chiefly archaic
Involving or causing much bloodshed: they lost heavily in the sanguinary campaigns that followed...
  • There are few more gruesome and sanguinary spectacles than a Tory leadership struggle: one lasting eight months is uncharted territory - a marathon of fear, loathing and betrayal.
  • Even before this, the reaction of the badly frightened British had been sanguinary and included a revival of the old Mughal punishment of tying captured mutineers over the mouths of cannon and blowing them apart.
  • Specifically, it might inspire them to revisit the politically arduous and philosophically complex struggle whereby modern liberalism overcame the sanguinary terror of religious conflict in post-Reformation Europe.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'relating to blood'): from Latin sanguinarius, from sanguis, sanguin- 'blood'.

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