What is "bloodlettings"

Usage examples of "bloodlettings".

Those black moods usually ended by escalating into a towering rage and plans for bloodlettings that were bigger and more spectacular than any that had gone before.

Among the German farmers of Lancaster, for example, are scores, perhaps hundreds, of truly, literally Good People, escap'd from a Hell we in our small tended Quotidian may but try to imagine, entire Villages put to Flame, and Tortures worse than Inquisitorial, disembowelments, bloodlettings, a world without Innocence, yet, escap'd here, into Innocence reborn, something deeper and more intricate, they call it "a new Life in Christ," it is their way of explaining it.

The boys in my junior high school went through a siege of drawing machines like that: hot rods and racing cars, tanks, torture devices, guns, knives, and bloodlettings of all kinds.

In the view of the majority, the calm that has descended upon our Continent must be ascribed partly to the general prostration following the bloodlettings of the terrible wars, but far more to the fact that the Occident has ceased to be the focal point of world history and the arena in which claims to hegemony are fought out.