lividness

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Von Holtz’s pallor changed subtly from the pallor of fear to the awful lividness of rage.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

A rapid flowed into the head of it, and the lines of froth shone with a strange lividness.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

The glare behind him emphasized the lividness of his pallid skin.

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

The start, and the sudden lividness of the other’s countenance plainly visible in the moonlight, were answer enough.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

Cy′anite, a mineral composed of alumina and silica, generally sky-blue; Cyanom′eter, an instrument for measuring the degrees of blueness of the sky or ocean; Cyanō′sis, morbid lividness of the skin, blue jaundice.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various