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Webster 1913 Edition
Resemblance
1.
The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great
resemblance
to each other. Dryden.
2.
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are
resemblances
formed according to things spiritual. Hooker.
3.
A comparison; a simile.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
4.
Probability; verisimilitude.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Syn. – Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; image.
Webster 1828 Edition
Resemblance
RESEM'BLANCE
,Noun.
1.
Likeness; similitude, either of external form or of qualities. We observe a resemblance between persons, a resemblance in shape, a resemblance in manners, a resemblance in dispositions. Painting and poetry bear a great resemblance to each other, as one object of both is to please.2.
Something similar; similitude; representation.These sensible things which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.
Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair -