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noun

Likeness n.

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

Appearance or form; guise. "An enemy in the likeness of a friend."

That which closely resembles; a portrait. "(How he looked) the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine."

A comparison; parable; proverb. (Obs.) "He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself."

Synonyms: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.

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Etymology of 'Likeness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Likeness" Quotes from Famous Books

... have seen, makes it his life's aim to be transformed into the likeness of Him in whose image he was created.[15] He loves to figure his path as a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, which must be climbed step by step. This scala perfectionis is generally divided into three stages. The first is called the purgative life, the second the illuminative, ...

— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge

... specimens of antelope, all species of which Tarzan had known since childhood as Bara, the deer, since in the little primer that had been the basis of his education the picture of a deer had been the nearest approach to the likeness of the antelope, from the giant eland to the smaller bushbuck of the hunting ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... be rightly judged by the standard of pleasure, which makes or furnishes no utility or truth or likeness, nor on the other hand is productive of any hurtful quality, but exists solely for the sake of the accompanying charm; and the term 'pleasure' is most appropriately applied to it when these ...

— Laws • Plato

... was made by Colonel Trapaud, and obligingly given to me. He not only stood patiently during the performance, but seemed much pleased with the execution, and proposed that the Colonel should accompany him to his country to have an opportunity of making a likeness of his father. To our collectors of rare prints it is well known that there exists an engraving of a man of this description by the title of The Painted Prince, brought to England by Captain Dampier from one of the islands of the eastern sea in the year 1691, and of whom a particular account ...

— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden

... I don't wear a window in my breast?" he laughed. "The girl's a little country girl I knew in England—I didn't know she was in Paris. And I thought I knew the woman, too, but that's impossible: it's only a likeness." ...

— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit

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