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What does "sanguine" mean?

Sanguine: Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
  2. 3.Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
  3. 4.Blood color; red. Spenser.
  4. 5.Anything of a blood-red, as cloth. [Obs.] In sanguine and in pes he clad was all. Chaucer.
  5. 6.(Min.) Bloodstone.
  6. 7.Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
  7. 8.To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
  8. 9.In a sanguine manner. I can not speculate quite so sanguinely as he does. Burke.

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