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单词 paleness
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palenessn.

Brit. /ˈpeɪlnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpeɪlnᵻs/
Forms: see pale adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pale adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < pale adj. + -ness suffix.
The quality or condition of being pale; pallor.
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun] > paleness
bleachc1050
palenessc1350
wanness1382
pallorc1400
whiteness?c1425
palea1547
lightness1552
albescence1742
sickness1849
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxvii. 14 (MED) Þe wil of þe [Old Testament is] seluered, þat his to saie, fainteliche made; bot þe lawe of þe last testament, þat hys, þe nywe, ben in palenes [v.r. pallour; L. pallore] of gold, þat hys to saye, ben att þe wyl of God.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xiv. 37 Whenne he seeþ in þe wallys of hit as litul valeys deformed wiþ paalnes or wiþ reednes..he shal go out of þe dore of þe hous.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 378 (MED) Palenesse, of colowre: Pallor.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 84v (MED) Þe colour of his face chaungiþ now to whitnesse and now to grenesse, palnes, or to blacnes.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlvi. f. 265 A certaine palenesse in her face, which declared the little pleasure that she toke in his toyes.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xcii. 273 [It] taketh away the colour, and bringeth such a paalnesse, as is in dead bodies.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania iv. 537 Shee seeme as faire as euer; her palenesse and losse of complexion restor'd by the rarenesse of such a vertue.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. E5v Melancholick diseases, palenesse, and smallenesse of pulse.
1696 M. Pix Inhumane Cardinal 222 He perceiv'd a deadly paleness to o'erspread Melora's Beauties.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 26 Only defended from paleness, by a sweetly pleasing blush in her cheeks.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 20 Her countenance changed to an ashy paleness.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 395 Natural paleness, and that paleness proceeding from bad health, are readily distinguished by the town practitioner.
1883 M. Oliphant Hester II. xii. 197 His paleness, his excitement, his absence of mind, had all been from another cause.
1917 E. Wharton Summer xii. 185 His head loomed black between her eyes and the paleness of the sky.
1998 S. Orlean Orchid Thief 272 His tallness, thinness, and paleness seemed always to be growing taller, thinner, and paler.

Compounds

paleness-breeding adj. Obsolete
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1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 429 Their Palenesse-breeding Labours wo'n't yeild Sack.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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