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noun

unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin: paleness, equivalent to pall(ēre) to be pale + -or -or¹

Can be confused: pale, pail, pall, pallor (see synonym note at pale¹).

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pallor (ˈpælə)

—n
	a pale condition, esp when unnatural: fear gave his face a deathly pallor

[C17: from Latin: whiteness (of the skin), from pallēre to be pale¹]

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Word Origin & History

pallor

c.1400, from O.Fr. palor "paleness," from L. pallor, from pallere "be pale," related to pallus "dark-colored, dusky," from PIE base *pel- "dark-colored, gray" (cf. Skt. palitah "gray," panduh "whitish, pale," Gk. pelios "livid," polios "gray," O.E. fealo "dull-colored, yellow, brown").

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Medical Dictionary

pallor pal·lor (pāl'ər)
n.
Paleness, as of the skin.

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"The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,—pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them, and see what conceits they entertain,—they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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