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Definition of Semblance

Semblance

  1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
  2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.

Semblance Quotations

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore de Balzac

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Desiderius Erasmus

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.
Kirstie Alley

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
Ben Harper

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
William Godwin
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Semblance Translations

semblance in German is Anschein {m}
semblance in Spanish is semejanza
semblance in Swedish is skepnad, utseende

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