SEMBLANCE

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SEMBLANCEn.
Websters Unabridged Dictionary (1913) • 1913
Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. Only semblances or imitations of shells. Woodward.
semblancenoun
Wiktionary (English) • 2026
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The outward appearance or form of a person or thing. | The outward appearance or form of a person or thing. | Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing when regarded as similar to that of another person or thing. | The outward appearance or form of a person or thing. | Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing which is different from what the person or thing actually is; also, an outward appearance of a thing which does not actually exist. | Followed by of: a person or thing that is seen; an apparition, a vision. | Followed by of: a person or thing that looks similar to another person or thing; a likeness. | Followed by of: a bare or mere appearance of something. | A person's non-verbal behaviour or demeanour which shows their feelings, thoughts, etc., or which is faked to hide such true feelings, thoughts, etc. | In the form make semblance: an act of appearing; an appearance, a manifestation; also, a false appearance, a pretence. | The quality or state of being similar; likeness, resemblance, similarity. | The chance of something happening; likelihood, probability.

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