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Meanings of wanness in English
Portuguese
palidez Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
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Examples for "pallor"
Examples for "pallor"
1
Platonída Ivánovna did not like the pallor of his face in particular.
2
He noted the pallor in her cheek, the dread in her eyes.
3
Her pallor was the pallor of death; the convulsions began once more.
4
Slowly the natural pallor returned to the high forehead and sharp features.
5
The face of the Southern leader was chalk white in its pallor.
1
The faces of the band boys had become of a yellowish paleness.
2
The flush in the girl's sweet face faded into a deadly paleness.
3
Perhaps it was the moon which lent her paleness to his countenance.
4
The paleness of his cheek, and the frequent sigh, expressed his sorrow.
5
The paleness becomes extreme, the skin often having a lemon yellow tint.
1
Blanching only occurs for a matter of hours after lividity first develops.
2
Post mortem, cadaveric lividity is well marked, especially in nose, lips, ears, etc.
3
He was simply beside her inside a breath, lividity raging in his expression.
4
She looked at it closer, mentally conjuring Allegra's similar lividity.
5
Prelim, twelve to fourteen hours based on temp and lividity.
1
He raises his eyes and beholds only the lividness of the clouds.
2
My sister's well-known and beloved features could not be concealed by convulsion or lividness.
3
The assistants' faces were then given that spectral lividness that the imagination ascribes to phantoms.
4
A blackness passing to lividness crossed his face.
5
An awful lividness stole over his face.
1
The pallidness of her face had departed.
2
His co-voyageur was without curiosity; the former pallidness and silentness resumed their dominion over him, and the lesser gentleman settled moodily back to his newspaper.
3
'If I was, I'd knock some of the pallidness off of your marble brow.
4
'-Thepallidness of his countenance expressed very strongly the danger of perishing in which he had felt himself.
1
Beyond the window, the lightning flashed with an awful luridness upon the rushing hail.
2
The luridness of war was over everything.
3
The clinical mood of the video is intentional, in order to remove anything associated with luridness or pornography.
Usage of wanness in English
1
There appeared a wanness in the night, and Helena felt inexpressibly dreary.
2
Helena wanted the day-wanness to be quite wiped off the west.
3
Such, then, is the cause of the wanness of my complexion.
4
To this was added a certain wanness and air of fatigue.
5
It was the last phase, the feebleness, the wanness, the inertia!
6
The ghastly little skull-cap showed forth its wanness rigidly.
7
Some wanness where, I think, thy foot may fall!
8
In her there always appears a terrible wanness, right upon the heels of a wonderful freshness.
9
A ghostly ray came through a crack between the logs and lit Alice's face with a pathetic wanness.
10
She had taken off her high, close neckwear, and the wanness of her throat showed above a collarless shirt-waist.
11
There was exertion about every move of his body, the wanness and effort of vanished vitality; he balanced himself carefully.
12
Her jealous shame at being disprized and notoriously neglected had given her wanness and bitterness, instead of warmth and sweetness.
13
At the name of Barto Rizzo, Laura's eyes widened, awakening a memory in Ammiani; and her face had a spectral wanness.
14
Miss Arden, looking back at her, noted how each day was helping to remove the pallor and wanness from that face.
15
A faint flush, appearing in Jack's cheeks, only emphasized his wanness and the whiteness of his neck and chin and forehead.
16
His countenance was haggard, and his complexion seemed to be a struggle between the wanness of care and the redness of intemperance.
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Wanness through the time