▪ I. palling, vbl. n.
(ˈpɔːlɪŋ)
[f. pall v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of pall v.1; the losing of freshness, flavour, or interest, etc.: see the verb.
| 1703 Art & Myst. Vintners 5 The Palling or Flatting of Wines. 1833 Disraeli Cont. Fleming iii. xvii, I know not the palling of passion. 1873 Symonds Grk. Poets v. 129 To prevent the palling of so much luxury on sated senses. |
▪ II. ˈpalling, ppl. a.1
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That palls upon the taste, etc.: see the verb.
| 1666 Dryden Ann. Mirab. ccix, Their palling taste the journey's length destroys. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones viii. xiv, The trifling amusements, the palling pleasures, the silly business of the world. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. II. 180 The fresh fruit flavor; rich, luscious, yet not palling. |
Hence ˈpallingly adv.
| 1821 Campbell in New Monthly Mag. II. 236 Their subjects remind us of fables rather pallingly familiar to our school-boy memories. |
▪ III. palling, ppl. a.2
[f. pall v.3 + -ing2.]
That covers with, or as, a pall.
| 1832 R. Cattermole Beckett, etc. 175 Terror, first, In frenzied haste withdraws the palling shroud. |