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bloodshed (n.)
also
blood-shed
, c. 1500, "the shedding of (one's) blood," from verbal phrase (attested in late Old English), from
blood
(n.) +
shed
(v.). The sense of "slaughter" is much older (early 13c., implied in
bloodshedding
).