Definition of Palest

1. Adjective. (superlative of pale) ¹

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Definition of Palest

1. pale [adj] - See also: pale

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palest

paleothermometers
paleothermometry
paleotheroid
paleotype
paleotypes
paleous
paleozoic
paleozoological
paleozoologies
paleozoologist
paleozoologists
paleozoology
paler
palermoite
pales
palest (current term)
palestra
palestrae
palestral
palestras
palestric
palet
paleta
paletas
paletiology
paletot
paletots
palets
palette
palette knife

Literary usage of Palest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Survey of Western palest., Mem. II, 15G; ROBINSON, Bibl. Researches (London, 1856), III, 337 sqq.; TORREY in Journ, Am. Or. Soc., XX, 160 sqq.; ..."

2. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"See Robinson's palest II. p. 349, 350. b) KS3 pas Valley of Boca ie of Weeping, ... 15, 8. 18, 16. 2 Sam. 5, IS. 22. Josh. 17, 5. See Robinson's palest L p. ..."

3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1879)
"I have a variety of Stella taken by Mr. Morrison, in which all the dark markings are faded to the palest ashy-brown tint ; the orange is also pale; ..."

4. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1837)
"Heads of Flowers large and handsome, of a fine pale purple, on simple peduncles ; florets of the disk palest, or reddish, nearly equal (see fig. 5. ..."

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