bloodlessness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bloodlessness (uncountable)
- The characteristic of being bloodless.
- 1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Battle of Magersfontein”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 162:
- The most striking lesson of the engagement is the extreme bloodiness of modern warfare under some conditions, and its bloodlessness under others.
- 1933, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 9, in Lost on Venus[1]:
- The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Grotto”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
- Her heart rebelled against the bloodlessness of his precision, but she had begun to watch him with a grudging admiration for a quality so alien to her own temperament.
Translations
[edit]the characteristic of being bloodless
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