Definition of Semblance

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Definition of Semblance
	Semblance Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. Related Definitions: Actual, Apparent, Appearance, As, Figure, Form, Likeness, Of, Or, Resemblance, Seeming, Semblance, Show, Similitude, The, Virtue, Worth

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

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Glenn Danzig

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
Trent Reznor

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

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

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.
James T. Walsh

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Matthew Prior

Semblance Translations

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

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