Heart-blood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Blood needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life; lifeblood. archaic, literary, uncountable

    "[…] 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; […]"

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"[…] 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; […]"

Etymology

From Middle English herte blood. By surface analysis, heart + blood.

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