Definition of Likeness

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Likeness

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

Appearance or form; guise.

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

A comparison; parable; proverb.

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Likeness Quotations

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
Benny Hinn

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Edvard Munch

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
Adam Clarke

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
Neil Schon

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
George William Russell

Likeness Translations

likeness in French is similitude
likeness in Italian is assomiglianza
likeness in Latin is visio, similitudo, imago
likeness in Norwegian is likhet
likeness in Spanish is analogia, semejanza
likeness in Swedish is likhet

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