[f. LIVID + -NESS.] = prec.

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1656.  Prynne, Demurrerto Jews’ Remitter, 26. He is whipped even unto bloud and lividnesse.

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1698.  Musgrave, in Phil. Trans., XX. 179. The remarkable Lividness of their Faces.

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1762–65.  H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint., III. 53. He … caught the roundness of his flesh, but with a disagreeable lividness.

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1798.  Wilson, in Phil. Trans., LXXXVIII. 354. This occasional lividness would happen to a child in that state. [In mod. Dicts.]

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