n. 1. Physical or mental weariness resulting from effort or activity. 2. Something, such as tiring effort or activity, that causes tiredness or weariness: the fatigue of a long hike. 3. Physiology The decreased capacity or complete inability of an organism, organ, or part to function normally because of excessive stimulation or prolonged exertion. 4.
blood - the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products; the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions
From this ethnological perspective, Hopkins's outlook on the genealogical implications of one blood remains considerably more sanguine in comparison with the profoundly ambivalent explication of the scientific, cultural, and political meanings of one blood suggested in her final work of fiction, where one blood as a metaphor for redemptive monogenesis becomes troublingly conflated with one blood as a metaphor for universal incest.