semblance

Speech parts

1. semblance - Noun

2. semblance - Adjective

Meaning

Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.

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Phrases with the word

Examples

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. Honoré de Balzac

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material. Arthur Schopenhauer

These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth. Fernando Pessoa

The one infinite is perfect, in simplicity, of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God, universal Nature, occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance. Giordano Bruno

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. John Calvin

Two thirds of the work is the semblance. Irish Proverb

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