pallidness
- 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
He was powerfully moved; his countenance changed from its usual pallidness to strong suffusion; his hands rather tossed than waved in the air.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
Achromatism -- N. achromatism†; decoloration†, discoloration; pallor, pallidness, pallidity†; paleness &c. adj.; etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Five shillings each to watch the burning blush of shame chasing pallidness from poverty's wan cheek!
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John
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 Melville, Herman
