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Definition of Cadaverously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cadaverously
Literary usage of Cadaverously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"This soul will see its own body, a body most infamous by sin, marked with all
the characters of damnation, cadaverously palo in countenance, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously wan; but moreover, there was a species
of mad hilarity in his eyes, and evidently restrained hysteria in his ..."
3. Memorials of His Time by Henry Cockburn Cockburn (1856)
"person; tall, very thin, and cadaverously pale; his hair carefully powdered,
though there was little of it except what was collected into a long thin queue; ..."
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