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Palest

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    superlative form of pale: most pale form-of, superlative

    "So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams."

Verb
  1. 1
    second-person singular simple present indicative of pale archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular

    "“[…] Who’s over me? Truth hath no confines. Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends’ glarings is a doltish stare! So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted thee to anger-glow. But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself.[…]”"

Etymology

Etymology 1

pale + -est

Etymology 2

pale + -est

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