Bloodstained, bloody, or characterized by bloodshed; an archaic or poetic term.
From Latin 'cruentus' meaning bloody or bloodied, derived from 'cruor' meaning blood or gore, connecting to the ancient root that also gave us 'crude' and 'raw'.
This rare word perfectly shows how English inherited hundreds of adjectives from Latin that we've mostly abandoned—it's technically correct but sounds Shakespearean or Gothic now.
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