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Sanguine   /sˈæŋgwɪn/   Listen
adjective
Sanguine  adj.  
1.
Having the color of blood; red. "Of his complexion he was sanguine." "Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe."
2.
Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
3.
Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
4.
Anticipating the best; cheerfully optimistic; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success; a sanguine disposition.
Synonyms: Warm; ardent; lively; confident; hopeful; optimistic.



noun
Sanguine  n.  
1.
Blood color; red.
2.
Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth. (Obs.) "In sanguine and in pes he clad was all."
3.
(Min.) Bloodstone.
4.
Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.



verb
Sanguine  v. t.  To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.





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... the subject demand, and which it certainly ought to receive. But this (as was remarked in the foregoing number of this paper) is more to be wished than expected, that it may be so considered and examined. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It is not yet forgotten that well-grounded apprehensions of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of 1774. That body recommended certain measures to their constituents, and the event ...
— The Federalist Papers
 
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... well watered by several streams, which descended from the heights above. A mere nominal rent was asked, and he had the privilege of paying for it by instalments whenever he should have obtained the means of doing so. Considering this a great advantage, he had sanguine hopes of success. He at once commenced a cacao plantation, of which some already existed in the island. It is a tree somewhat resembling the English cherry-tree, and is about fifteen feet in height, ...
— The Wanderers - Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco • W.H.G. Kingston
 
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... escorted by grenadiers, but with limbs unbound, as the law directed. He was a man of fifty or thereabouts, lean and dry, with a brown face, a very bald head, hollow cheeks and thin livid lips, dressed in an out-of-date coat of a sanguine red. No doubt it was fever that made his eyes glitter like jewels and gave his cheeks their shiny, varnished look. He took his seat. His legs, which he crossed, were extraordinarily spare and his great ...
— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France
 
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... the Mexican soldiers, who told them that they were to be shot in a day or two, and might as well part with whatever they had left, in order to render their last hours more endurable. This cruel assurance, however, the prisoners did not believe. They were sanguine of a speedy return to the States, and impatiently waited the arrival of an order for their shipment from Santa Anna, who was then at St Antonio, and to whom news of the capitulation had been sent. General Urrea had marched from Goliad ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various
 
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... prosperity of the principal colony, draining those resources which ought to have been applied to different purposes, where the hope and probability of some recompense, adequate to the expense, might have been more sanguine, and less unlikely. Norfolk Island, so far from returning any proportionate recompense for those supplies, had not, in the course of thirteen years, sent to New South Wales property of any description exceeding in value 2000L.; during ...
— The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) • David Dickinson Mann
 
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