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Bloodiness   Listen
noun
Bloodiness  n.  
1.
The state of being bloody.
2.
Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. "All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature."





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"Bloodiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... have once had my say about anything, don't ask me again." So Nero disposed of him by poison. He also appointed to command the Pretorians a certain Ofonius Tigillinus, who outstripped all his contemporaries in licentiousness and bloodiness. [It was he who won Nero away from them and made light of his colleague Rufus.] [Footnote: Foenius Rufus.] To him the famous sentence of Pythias is said to have been directed. She had proved the only exception when all the other attendants of Octavia had ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio


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