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Webster 1913 Edition


pallor

pal′lor

,
Noun.
[L., fr.
pallere
to be or look pale. See
Pale
,
Adj.
]
Paleness; want of color; pallidity;
as,
pallor
of the complexion
.
Jer. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pallor

PAL'LOR

,
Noun.
[L.] Paleness.

Definition 2024


pallor

pallor

English

Alternative forms

  • pallour (obsolete)

Noun

pallor (plural pallors)

  1. Paleness; want of color; pallidity.
    pallor of the complexion
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
      "Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master"--here he looked round him and began to whisper--"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf."

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  • pallor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Etymology

From palleō (I am or look pale, blanch), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (gray).

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Noun

pallor m (genitive pallōris); third declension

  1. a pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor
  2. (by extension) mustiness, moldiness, mildew
  3. (by extension) dimness, faintness
  4. (by extension) a disagreeable color or shape, unsightliness
  5. (figuratively) alarm, terror

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pallor pallōrēs
genitive pallōris pallōrum
dative pallōrī pallōribus
accusative pallōrem pallōrēs
ablative pallōre pallōribus
vocative pallor pallōrēs

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