lividness
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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; CyanÅ′sis, morbid lividness of the skin, blue jaundice.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It dropped from her powerless fingers as she finished; and she sank back in her chair with such a ghastly paleness, that it seemed absolutely like the lividness of death.
From The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming
The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness, in which the purple lips fall slightly apart.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
Then daylight came and the statue took on in succession the rosy lividness of the dawn and the gilded reflection of the sun.
From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Pierre Lou?s
My sister's well-known and beloved features could not be concealed by convulsion or lividness.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
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