semblant
English
Alternative forms
- semblaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
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Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.
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
Catalan
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)
Derived terms
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Verb
semblant
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French
Pronunciation
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Verb
semblant
Noun
semblant m (plural semblants)
- a semblance (of something)
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