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wanness|ˈwɒnnɪs|
Also 7 wand-.
[f. wan a. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being wan; † lividity (obs.): a pale, dead, or sickly colour (of the face), pallidness.
1382Wyclif Gen. iv. 23, I slowe a man into my wound, and a litle waxen man into my wannesse [Vulg. in livorem meum]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. liv. (1495) 268 Wyth to grete holdynge of emeroides comyth..palenesse of face and wannesse and heuynesse of loynes. 1530Palsgr. 286/2 Wannes of colour, indeur. 1611Cotgr., Blaimeur palenesse, wannesse, bleakenesse; a dead, or whitish colour. Ibid., Lividité, liuiditie, lewnesse, wannesse,..blewishnesse; the colour appearing vpon a stroake, blacke and blew. 1615Crooke Body of Man 40 The heat of the heart being drawne inward, there appeareth a pale wannesse in the face. 1643A. Tuckney Balm of Gilead 22 The wannesse of his dead look upon the Crosse. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 180 A pale wandness in the face, as in the Flegmatique. 1771E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton III. 275 My wanness was the effect of ill health. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xliii, In the pale moonlight, which lent a wanness of its own to the delicate face. 1879M. E. Braddon Vixen III. iii. 108 There was a faded look about her complexion, too,..a wanness, a yellowness. |