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semblance
(encz) | semblance,zdání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Semblance
(gcide) | Semblance \Sem"blance\, n. [F. See Semblable, a.]
1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
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Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were.
--Fairfax.
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2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as,
the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
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Only semblances or imitations of shells. --Woodward.
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semblance
(wn) | semblance
n 1: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately
misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of
authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of
moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different
color" [syn: semblance, gloss, color, colour]
2: an erroneous mental representation [syn: illusion,
semblance]
3: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
[syn: likeness, semblance] |
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bear a resemblance
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dissemblance
(encz) | dissemblance,pokrytectví n: Zdeněk Broždissemblance,přetvářka n: Zdeněk Brož |
mutual resemblance
(encz) | mutual resemblance, n: |
resemblance
(encz) | resemblance,podobnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
semblance
(encz) | semblance,zdání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Assemblance
(gcide) | Assemblance \As*sem"blance\, n. [Cf. OF. assemblance.]
1. Resemblance; likeness; appearance. [Obs.]
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Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big
assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit. --Shak.
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2. An assembling; assemblage. [Obs.]
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To weete [know] the cause of their assemblance.
--Spenser.
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Dissemblance
(gcide) | Dissemblance \Dis*sem"blance\, n. [Cf. F. dissemblance. See
Dissemble.]
Want of resemblance; dissimilitude. [R.] --Osborne.
[1913 Webster]Dissemblance \Dis*sem"blance\, n. [Dissemble + -ance.]
The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation. [Obs.]
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Missemblance
(gcide) | Missemblance \Mis*sem"blance\, n.
False resemblance or semblance. [Obs.]
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Nonresemblance
(gcide) | Nonresemblance \Non`re*sem"blance\, n.
Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
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Resemblance
(gcide) | Resemblance \Re*sem"blance\ (-blans), n. [Cf. F. ressemblance.
See Resemble.]
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude;
similarity.
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One main end of poetry and painting is to please;
they bear a great resemblance to each other.
--Dryden.
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2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a
likeness.
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These sensible things, which religion hath allowed,
are resemblances formed according to things
spiritual. --Hooker.
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3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Syn: Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance;
representation; image.
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Vraisemblance
(gcide) | Vraisemblance \Vrai`sem`blance"\, n. [F.]
The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
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mutual resemblance
(wn) | mutual resemblance
n 1: symmetrical resemblance |
resemblance
(wn) | resemblance
n 1: similarity in appearance or external or superficial details |
semblance
(wn) | semblance
n 1: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately
misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of
authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of
moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different
color" [syn: semblance, gloss, color, colour]
2: an erroneous mental representation [syn: illusion,
semblance]
3: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
[syn: likeness, semblance] |
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