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paleness|ˈpeɪlnɪs|
[f. pale a. + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being pale; pallor.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxvii[i]. 14 Þe hyndire of hire bak in palnes of gold [L. pallore auri]. c1440Promp. Parv. 378/2 Palenesse, of colowre, pallor. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xcii. 273 [It] taketh away the colour, and bringeth such a paalnesse, as is in dead bodies. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Melancholick diseases, palenesse, and smallnesse of pulse. 1797Mrs. Radciffe Italian i. (1826) 8 Her countenance changed to an ashy paleness. 1835Ure Phil. Manuf. 395 Natural paleness, and that paleness proceeding from bad health, are readily distinguished by the town practitioner.
Comb.1654Whitlock Zootomia 429 Their Palenesse⁓breeding Labours wo'n't yeild Sack. |