Deserving of or worthy of bloodshed; deserving violent punishment or retribution.
Compound of 'blood' and 'worthy,' following English patterns of '-worthy' adjectives meaning 'deserving of' or 'suitable for.' This archaic term appears in older legal and religious texts.
Words ending in '-worthy' (seaworthy, newsworthy, praiseworthy) show how English builds moral judgments into vocabulary—calling someone 'bloodworthy' was a way of saying they deserved the harshest punishment, embedding ethics into grammar itself.
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