Semblance
['sembləns] or ['sɛmbləns]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
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Definition
(a.) Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
(a.) Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Likeness, resemblance, similitude.[2]. Show, appearance, seeming, figure, form.
Typist: Melba
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Seeming, appearance, form, show, likeness, mien, aspect, bearing, similitude
ANT:Unlikeness, disparity, difference, contrariety, dissimilitude
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Examples
- Lily shook her head with a charming semblance of regret. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- One morning, coming on me abruptly, and with the semblance of hurryshe said she found herself placed in a little dilemma. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You may sculpture to the inch every portion of the human body, but that is only the outward semblance of the picture or the statue. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But even to her own conscience she must trump up a semblance of defence. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No semblance of a house remains in such as these. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Great pains had been taken in the scenery to give the semblance of reality to the impossible. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It bore no semblance to a town, and had nothing about it to suggest that it had ever been a town. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If I fall, let me fall bearing about me the semblance of a Christian, at least. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So Mr. Philander lay as he had fallen, frozen into the horrid semblance of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- After prayers the Synagogue shortly took the semblance of a writing school. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Without questioning his meaning, or sounding his plan, or offering the semblance of an objection, I re-tied my bonnet: I was ready. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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