Definition of "bloodless"
bloodless
adjective
comparative more bloodless, superlative most bloodless
Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
Quotations
My bloodleſſe bodie waxeth chill and colde,And with my blood my life ſlides through my wound,My ſoule begins to take her flight to hell,And ſummones all my ſences to depart: […]
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene vii
Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads,Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sightStruck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]