resemblance
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Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French (compare French ressemblance).
Morphologically resemble + -ance.
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Noun edit
resemblance (countable and uncountable, plural resemblances)
- The quality or state of resembling.
- Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 16–17:
- His wife and sister had too many points of resemblance, not to entertain a strong and mutual dislike.
- That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
- A comparison; a simile.
- Probability; verisimilitude.
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state of resembling
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that which resembles
comparison
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probability
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Old French edit
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Noun edit
resemblance oblique singular, f (oblique plural resemblances, nominative singular resemblance, nominative plural resemblances)
- similarity (taken as a whole, the qualities than make two or more things similar)
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (resemblance, supplement)
- resemblance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (has no entry, but lists one citation)