palely
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palely (comparative more palely, superlative most palely)
- 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[1], Chapter:
- The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.
- 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers[2], Part Two:
- It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.
Translations edit
in a pale manner
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References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “palely”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.