Both Uses of
sanguine
in
Dracula
- Sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.
p. 69.1sanguine = confidently optimistic and cheerful
- I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the...
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Definitions:
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(1)
(sanguine) confidently optimistic and cheerful
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Other meanings of sanguine relate to its root meaning of blood. Thus sanguine or rare derivatives like sanguinary or sanguineous can refer to the color red or to bloodshed.