semblant
English
Alternative forms
- semblaunt (obsolete)
Noun
semblant (plural semblants)
- (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 […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
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Adjective
semblant (comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)
- (obsolete) Like; resembling.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)
- (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.
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
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Etymology
From semblar, or possibly from Late Latin similāns, similāntem, present participle of similō, from Latin similis.
Adjective
semblant (masculine and feminine plural semblants)
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