semblant

English

Alternative forms

• semblaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

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Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

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

• make semblant

Adjective

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.

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Etymology

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

Adjective

semblant m or 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

• semblantment

Related terms

• semblança

Verb

semblant

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Verb

semblant

1. present participle of sembler

Noun

semblant m (plural semblants)

1. a semblance (of something)

Derived terms

• faux-semblant