[Ads-l] battlelust

[Benjamin Barrett]

On 18 Mar 2016, at 23:01, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Benjamin Barrett <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Battlelust is not on the Oxford Dictionary site or in Wiktionary. Google =
>> Books has a lusty samples of uses. Not surprisingly, it appears to be =
>> used primarily in fantasy.
>> 
> 
> Have you looked under _battle lust_/battle-lust_?
> 
> The Iliad of Homer: Books 1-12 - Page 272
> https://books.google.com/books?id=89k4AQAAMAAJ
> 1886
> There left they the dead, having utterly quelled their _battle-lust_.

Thank you. Just a dehyphenation issue. Still, it should be catalogued. BB

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