sanguinary
/ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
adj
Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
noun
noun
The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).
Example Sentences
- "We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences."
- ""[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle.""
- "It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country. China had substantial grievances against the peninsula kingdom. In the year a.d. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court."
- "Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary."
- ""The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]""
- "I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]"
Etymology
From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sanguinarie, sanguinārius
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/
- British English: /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/