Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PALE'NESS, n.

1. Wanness; defect of color; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness of look. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook, / A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. – Pope.
2. Want of color or luster; as, the paleness of a flower. – Shak.