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.

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1882.  A. Macfarlane, Consanguin., 17. Brother, full-blood = male child of male and female parents.

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1888.  Harper’s Mag., March, LXXVI. 602. The full-blood [Cherokee] is always present in the national Legislature.

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1893.  Columbus (Ohio) Disp., 2 Oct. His mother [was] a full-blood Potawatomie squaw.

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  Similarly Full-blooded a. = FULL BLOOD, lit. and fig.; also, having plenty of blood. Hence Full-bloodedness lit. and fig.

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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 gunpowder—and a live pig—with warming pans—cod fish, broad axes, and hollow ware,—paid for inside, were not fit company for half a score of human beings, paid for, inside—with lighted pipes.

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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.

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1884.  Century Mag., XXVIII. 42. The full-bloodedness, the large feet and hands.

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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.’

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