a. a. Of a brother or sister: Born of the same parents (opposed to HALF-BLOOD 1. attrib.). b. Qualifying an ethnic designation: Of pure or unmixed race.
1882. A. Macfarlane, Consanguin., 17. Brother, full-blood = male child of male and female parents.
1888. Harpers Mag., March, LXXVI. 602. The full-blood [Cherokee] is always present in the national Legislature.
1893. Columbus (Ohio) Disp., 2 Oct. His mother [was] a full-blood Potawatomie squaw.
Similarly Full-blooded a. = FULL BLOOD, lit. and fig.; also, having plenty of blood. Hence Full-bloodedness lit. and fig.
1825. J. Neal, Brother Jonathan, II. 68. It would be no easy matter for a person travelling, to persuade a full-blooded republican driver, that a keg of gunpowderand a live pigwith warming panscod fish, broad axes, and hollow ware,paid for inside, were not fit company for half a score of human beings, paid for, insidewith lighted pipes.
1841. Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (1844), II. vii. 220. In his manners, and all his movements in company, he is polite and gentlemanly, though all his conversation is entirely in his own tongue; and his general appearance and actions, those of a full-blooded and wild Indian.
1884. Century Mag., XXVIII. 42. The full-bloodedness, the large feet and hands.
1894. Athenæum, 5 May, 571/3. His unquestioned ability has not the roundness, the ripeness, the mellow full-bloodedness of the style of The Heptameron.