Definition of "bloodlessness" []

• The characteristic of being bloodless. (noun)

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• "They have a rooted aversion to it and never employ it in their clothing, because it suggests to their fancy the idea of bloodlessness -- of anaemia and death."
• "His early solitude narrowed his affinities, and gave a kind of bloodlessness to his style; clear in hue, fine in texture, it is apt to want the mellow tinge which indicates a robust and copious life."
• "The comparative "bloodlessness," however -- the absence of life and colour in the earlier and older writer -- acts as a sort of veil to them."