ˈlividness
[f. livid + -ness.]
= prec.
| 1656 Prynne Demurrer to Jews' Remitter 26 He is whipped even unto bloud and lividnesse. 1698 Musgrave in Phil. Trans. XX. 179 The remarkable Lividness of their Faces. 1762–65 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. III. 53 He..caught the roundness of his flesh, but with a disagreeable lividness. 1798 Wilson in Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 354 This occasional lividness would happen to a child in that state. [In mod. Dicts.] |