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noun

Semblance n.

Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. "Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were."

Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. "Only semblances or imitations of shells."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Semblance" Quotes from Famous Books

... if no ill follows it," said the semblance of his sweetheart; but he never answered. He played and thrummed, and out of one dark corner trickled red blood into the fire-light, and out of another corner came a current of blood to meet it. Then he slowly rose, still ...

— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang

... lifting the propeller clear of the water. The engines expending their force in air, raced free. The clatter was infernal; the pistons seemed trying to jump out of the cylinders, while the throws and eccentrics lost all semblance ...

— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry

... last actions of the war, even the semblance of a Tank was sometimes enough! "Supply Tanks"—writes my informant—"were then being used, which looked like the real thing, but were only very slightly armoured. They were intended to carry material, sometimes munitions, and even ...

— Fields of Victory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... both standing by now opposite each other. The face of Archie wore the wretched semblance of a smile; hers was convulsed for ...

— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

... hardships and petitions of redress, unless when he showed himself irritated by the importunity of the suppliants, and hurt at being obliged to evade what it was impossible for him, with the least semblance of justice to refuse. The feeling against William long continued in Scotland. As late as November 5, 1788, when it was proposed that a monument should be erected in Edinburgh to his memory, there appeared in one of ...

— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean

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