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Antonyms for semblance

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sem-bluhns
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛm bləns


Definition of semblance

Origin :
  • c.1300, "fact of appearing to view," from Old French semblance, from semblant "likeness, appearance," present participle of sembler "to seem, appear," from Latin simulare "to resemble, imitate," from similis "like" (see similar (adj.)). Meaning "person's appearance or demeanor" is attested from c.1400; that of "false, assumed or deceiving appearance" is from 1590s. Meaning "person or thing that resembles another" is attested from 1510s.
  • noun aura, appearance
Example sentences :
  • The lawyer, therefore, leaned forward with a semblance of frank eagerness.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • It was merely a semblance, which effaced itself; the vanishing of an illusion.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • The yards, taken as a whole, have some semblance to a real garden.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of Murray Davenport » by Robert Neilson Stephens
  • We shall have him,' he cried, ridding himself of the semblance as hastily as he had assumed it.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • The semblance of a trial followed; he was condemned and transported to Cayenne.
  • Extract from : « A Zola Dictionary » by J. G. Patterson
  • It was she—it was her arms and necks which gave that semblance of amorous vitality to her fruit.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • He had schooled himself to a semblance of stoicism when he reached his office.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Eric Lane » by Stephen McKenna
  • Sudden and quietly as an apparition it came, but it bore the semblance of Romeo Gonzaga.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • By the very fiend, disguised in the gross flesh and semblance of a Dominican brother.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • But no snarl, nor semblance of a snarl, emerged from his lips.
  • Extract from : « G-r-r-r...! » by Roger Arcot

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