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Webster 1913 Edition

Palely

Pale′ly

,
adv.
[From
Pale
,
Adj.
]
In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.
Thackeray.

Webster 1828 Edition

Palely

PA'LELY

,
adv.
Wanly; not freshly or ruddily.

Definition 2024

palely

palely

English

Adverb

palely ‎(comparative more palely, superlative most palely)

  1. In a pale manner; lightly.
    • 1819, John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci", stanza 1,
      O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.
    • 1907, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, A Fountain Sealed, Chapter ,
      The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.
    • 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, Part Two,
      It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.

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