Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lividity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lividity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
livid (dark or pallid).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The suggestion for its replacement was "lividness".
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Instead, without explanation, this Puritanical pest, for which I paid a great deal of money, routinely modifies the most important word in my lexicon of lividness to "He'll".
One For The Table: "What the He'll?" One For The Table 2010
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Instead, without explanation, this Puritanical pest, for which I paid a great deal of money, routinely modifies the most important word in my lexicon of lividness to "He'll".
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Instead, without explanation, this Puritanical pest, for which I paid a great deal of money, routinely modifies the most important word in my lexicon of lividness to "He'll".
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Instead, without explanation, this Puritanical pest, for which I paid a great deal of money, routinely modifies the most important word in my lexicon of lividness to "He'll".
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He raises his eyes and beholds only the lividness of the clouds.
Les Miserables 2008
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That ivory paleness which had been so characteristic a trait of Charles, and had added at once to the melancholy and majesty of his face, was now of a yellow waxen colour, which might be said to increase from minute to minute in lividness of hue.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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The lividness had almost gone off it, remaining only here and there on the temples, on the nose, and between the eyes, in party-coloured, uneven, serpentine spots.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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She saw the face pale to lividness and the lips stiffen, but except for that, the man made no movement, and for some ten seconds he did not speak.
The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904
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"What do you think of him now?" they seemed to ask, and rising to her feet, she met him with a smile, ghastly perhaps with the lividness of the shadows through which she had been groping, but encouraging withal and soothing beyond measure to his anxious and harassed soul.
Dark Hollow Anna Katharine Green 1890
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