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Definition of In cold blood
1. Adverb. In a cold unemotional manner. "He killed her in cold blood"
Definition of In cold blood
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) In a ruthless and unfeeling manner; premeditated and deliberate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of In Cold Blood
Literary usage of In cold blood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves by George Washington Williams (1883)
"... IN CoLD BLOOD. — THE WOUNDED ARE CARRIED INTO HOUSES WHICH ARR FIRED AND 1H
... in Cold Blood ..."
2. History of Rome by Thomas Arnold (1871)
"... BATTLE OF SENTINUM, AND DEATH OF P. DECIUS—FINAL VICTORY OF Q. FABIUS OVER
THE SAMNITES—C. PONTIUS IS LED IN TRIUMPH, AND PUT TO DEATH in cold blood. ..."
3. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1882)
"Goths, and leaving Rome to be pillaged by them, then, worst of all, how he had
murdered in cold blood the heroic general who had routed the barbarians and ..."
4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"What he had designed was to bring to his excellency's attention two distinct
massacres in cold blood of defenseless Indians by the whites—one at or near ..."
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