palely
adv/ˈpeɪl.li/
Etymology From pale + -ly.
1
In a pale manner; lightly.
- O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci, stanza 1:
- The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.1907, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, A Fountain Sealed, Chapter:
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- It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, Part Two: