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Etiolate v. t.

To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

(Med.) To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.

Etiolate v. i. (past & past part. etiolated; pres. part. etiolating)

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

(Med.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.

adjective

Etiolated, Etiolate adj. Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.

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Etymology of 'Etiolated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Etiolated" Quotes from Famous Books

... hate myself for it," said Lawrence. "I hate your etiolated Christian ethics. I don't believe in the forgiveness of sins. The complaisant husband, O God! If I'd had the spirit of a man, I should have shot Arthur the night—that night—. . ...

— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... adult intellectuality. At present, in Great Britain at least, the headmasters entrusted with the education of the bulk of the influential men of the next decades are conspicuously second-rate men, forced and etiolated creatures, scholarship boys manured with annotated editions, and brought up under and protected from all current illumination by the kale-pot of the Thirty-nine Articles. Many of them are less capable teachers and even less intelligent men than ...

— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells