palely

pale +‎ -ly

palely (comparative more palely, superlative most palely)

1. In a pale manner; lightly.
   • 1819, John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci", stanza 1,

     O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.

   • 1907, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, A Fountain Sealed, Chapter,

     The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.

   • 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, Part Two,

     It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.