pallid
adjective
pale; faint or deficient in color; wan.
pallidness
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a word derived from
pallid.
Example Sentences
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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2014
I had not observed any particular appearance of health in the females of the country through which I had passed; on the contrary, I had been disappointed in their general pallidness and look of debility.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
In the lone, ghostly midnight, he raves as he lies, With death's ashen pallidness dimming his eyes: He shouts the sharp war-cry,—he rallies his men,— He is on the red field of Manassas again.
From Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War by Margaret J. Preston
The passionate exclamation—the half-uttered imprecation, and the gloomy pallidness of the losing gamester, ill accords with the female delicacy.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
Whereas, in the Pacific, all instances of the sort, previously corning under my notice, had been marked by patches of greenish light, unattended with any pallidness of sea.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
