[f. as prec. + -NESS.]
1. Bloody state or condition.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Ensangrentamiento, bluddines.
a. 1617. Hieron, Wks. (1620), II. 472. The brine … to be purged from the bloudinesse it hath sucked out of the flesh.
1617. Markham, Caval., VI. 9. And bloodines of sides [of a horse].
2. Sanguinary quality, tendency to bloodshed.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 784. What goodnesse they changed into bloudinesse.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., III. XI. 156. War … carried on … with some circumstances of bloodiness.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Acts xv. 29. Do nothing that … savoureth of cruelty and bloodiness.
