About The Word Resemblance
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Resemblance
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What's The Definition Of Resemblance?
[n] similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
Synonyms | Synonyms for Resemblance: Related Terms | Find terms related to Resemblance: See Also | affinity | alikeness | likeness | mutual resemblance | similitude Resemblance In Webster's Dictionary \Re*sem"blance\ (-blans), n. [Cf. F. ressemblance.
See {Resemble}.]
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude;
similarity.
One main end of poetry and painting is to please;
they bear a great resemblance to each other.
--Dryden.
2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a
likeness.
These sensible things, which religion hath allowed,
are resemblances formed according to things
spiritual. --Hooker.
3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] --Shak.
Syn: Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance;
representation; image.
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