unblooded
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unblooded (not comparable)
- Not yet blooded; untried in battle; still to take part in combat.
- 2009 October 11, Elizabeth D. Samet, “Marine Dreams”, in New York Times[1]:
- Recalling his anxiety as an unblooded lieutenant on the eve of the Mexican War, Ulysses S. Grant confessed, “I felt sorry that I had enlisted.”