semblance
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semblance englanniksi
The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
(RQ:Spenser Complaints)
(RQ:Milton Poems)
(RQ:Gray Poems) The eye of Rome / And the Prætorian camp have long rever'd, / VVith cuſtom'd avve, the daughter, ſiſter, vvife, / And mother of their Cæsars. / AGRIPPINA. Ha, by (mythology)|Juno, / It bears a noble ſemblance.
(RQ:Wordsworth Poems)
(RQ:Arnold Essays in Criticism)
''Followed by'' of: the outward appearance of a person or thing when regarded as similar to that of another person or thing.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives)-fault.
(RQ:Wordsworth White Doe) / 'Twas said that she all shapes could wear; / And oftentimes before him stood, / Amid the trees of some thick wood, / In semblance of a lady fair, (..)
''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.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Clarendon History)
(RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia)
(RQ:Carlyle Chartism)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) was forced to content himself with the substance of power, and to leave the semblance to others.
(RQ:Dickens Little Dorrit)
(RQ:Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde)
(quote-book) one wonders whether the function of statistical techniques in the social sciences is not primarily to provide a machinery for producing phoney corroborations and thereby a semblance of ‘scientific progress’ where, in fact, there is nothing but an increase in pseudo-intellectual garbage.
''Followed by'' of: a person or thing that is seen; an apparition, a vision.
(RQ:Scott Bridal of Triermain) alone, / In the Valley of Saint John. / And her semblance oft will seem / Mingling in a champion's dream, / Of her weary lot to plain, / And crave his aid to burst her chain.
(RQ:Mary Shelley Last Man)
''Followed by'' of: a person or thing that looks similar to another person or thing; a likeness.
(RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece)
(RQ:Walpole Painting in England)
(RQ:Ruskin Modern Painters)
(RQ:Macaulay Edinburgh Review) wished to put his own brother (quote-gloss) to death, without even the semblance of a trial, he found a ready instrument in Cranmer|(quote-gloss) Cranmer.
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.
(RQ:Grafton Chronicle) and the Duke of Buckingham (quote-gloss) made very good ſembleaunce vnto the Lord Haſtinges (quote-gloss), and kept him much in their company.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)
(RQ:Hall Hard Texts):9.
(RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)
(RQ:Dante Cary Vision)
''In the form'' make semblance: an act of appearing; an appearance, a manifestation; also, a false appearance, a pretence.
(RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge)
(RQ:Camden Holland Britain)
(RQ:Milton Eikonoklastes)
(RQ:Milton History) made ſemblance of marching tovvard ''Britain''; (..)
The quality or state of being similar; likeness, resemblance, similarity.
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Joseph Beaumont Psyche) vvere cloath’d in vvhiteſt ſilk, to hold / Some ’ſemblance to the Hand vvhich them controll’d.
The chance of something happening; likelihood, probability.
(RQ:N. Bacon England) vvas yet more ancient, even in the time of Henry I of England|''Hen''(quote-gloss) I. if I miſtake not the ſence of that clauſe in his lavvs concerning vagabonds; (..)