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palely

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From pale +‎ -ly.

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palely (comparative more palely, superlative most palely)

  1. 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.

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