Meaning of heart-blood | Babel Free

Definitions

Blood needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life; lifeblood.

archaic, literary, uncountable

Examples

“[…] I am not your king / Till I be crown’d and that my sword be stain’d / With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster; […]”

“What we haue done, / our hart bloud shall maintaine.”

“We shall not need here to call you to mind about the Massacres that were in Ireland, Paris, Piedmont, and other places: where the godly in the night, before they were well awake, had, some of them, their heart blood running on the ground.”

“[…] both his cheeks / Were hot and scarlet as the first live rose / The shepherd’s heart-blood ebbed away into, / The faster for his love.”

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