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pallescere

pallescere [CL] 1 (of person) to grow pale (usu. as result of strong emotion, illness, or fasting); b (transf. & fig.). obtenebrabuntur oculi, facies ut testa ~et P. Blois Ep. 117. 348B; in Pario marmore superba mulier moritura ~it Greg. Mir. Rom. 22; cepit puer ~ere, fauces collidere et toto corpore frigescere Mir. Wulfst. II 21; imminenti morte ~o et sola mortis imago versatur in oculis meis J. Ford Serm. 10. 6; facies speciosa ~ebat jejunio V. Edm. Rich B 621; ~it et mutatur color faciei de uno in alium multotiens Gad. 20. 2; insufficientiam reminiscens contremisco et contremescens palesco Ashenden AM 2. 1.  b ~it sane caritas nostra ad varios languores suos, nunc dolore, nunc torpore, nunc metu J. Ford Serm. 12. 8. 2 (of colour) to grow pale, fade. aiunt ‥ perfectam purpurae tincturam nullo umquam sole ‥ ~ere Bede Cant. 1196; tinctura ‥ cujus rubor pulcherrimus nullo umquam solis ardore ‥ valet ‥ ~ere Id. HE I 1 p. 10. 3 (of light) to grow faint, dim. o lux augusta profundis / pallescens tenebris Hanv. V 209.

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