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Webster 1913 Edition

Semblant

Sem′blant

,
Adj.
[F.
semblant
, p. pr.]
1.
Like; resembling.
[Obs.]
Prior.
2.
Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
[R.]
Carlyle.

Sem′blant

,
Noun.
[F.]
1.
Show; appearance; figure; semblance.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
His flatterers made
semblant
of weeping.
Chaucer.
2.
The face.
[Obs.]
Wyclif (Luke xxiv. 5).

Webster 1828 Edition

Semblant

SEM'BLANT

,
Noun.
Show; figure; resemblance. [Not in use.]

SEM'BLANT

,
Adj.
Like; resembling. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

semblant

semblant

English

Alternative forms

Noun

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 [...].

Derived terms

Adjective

semblant ‎(comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)

  1. (obsolete) Like; resembling.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)
  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.

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Etymology

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

Adjective

semblant m, f ‎(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.

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

semblant

  1. present participle of semblar

French

Verb

semblant

  1. present participle of sembler

Etymology

Borrowing from French semblant.

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