semblant

• semblaunt (obsolete)

Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

semblant (plural semblants)

1. (obsolete) One's outward appearance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]

• make semblant

semblant (comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)

1. (obsolete) Like; resembling.

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2. (obsolete) Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

     [C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master.

From semblar, or possibly from Late Latin similāns, similāntem, present participle of similō, from Latin similis.

semblant (masculine and feminine plural semblants)

1. similar
2. such

   No és lícit de recórrer a semblants mitjans.

   It's not right to resort to such means.

• semblantment

• semblança

semblant

1. present participle of semblar

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semblant

1. present participle of sembler

semblant m (plural semblants)

1. a semblance (of something)

• faux-semblant