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Definition of Bloodstained
1. Adjective. Covered with blood. "A gory dagger"
Definition of Bloodstained
1. Adjective. Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood. ¹
2. Adjective. Having the color of something which has been stained with blood. ¹
3. Adjective. Responsible for the deaths of others. ¹
4. Adjective. By extension from sense #3, guilty of wrongdoing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bloodstained
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodstained
Literary usage of Bloodstained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century of the Renaissance by Louis Batiffol (1916)
"CHAPTER VI bloodstained ANARCHY. CHARLES IX Charles IX, 1560-1574 : Regency of
Catherine de' Medici with Michel de 1'Hopital as her Chancellor. ..."
2. Around the Kremlin: Or, Pictures of Life in Moscow by George T. Lowth (1868)
"... Dying Monks—The Greek Monk—Differences in Monkish Life—The bloodstained Tower—A
Monk's Cell—Ecclesiastical Academy—The Troitsa Convent a Microcosm. ..."