Definition of Semblants

1. Noun. (plural of semblant) ¹

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Definition of Semblants

1. semblant [n] - See also: semblant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semblants

semasiography
semasiological
semasiologies
semasiology
semata
sematic
sematology
sematrope
sematropes
semblable
semblables
semblably
semblance
semblances
semblant
semblants (current term)
semblative
semblaunce
semblaunt
semble
sembled
sembles
sembling
seme
semee
semeed
semeia
semeiography
semeiologies
semeiology

Literary usage of Semblants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil by Jean Jules Jusserand (1895)
"Lack of sincerity, all the shapes and sorts of " faux semblants," or ... In shams and " faux semblants " he sees the true source of good and evil, ..."

2. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales (1893)
"... That secretly doth us procure to fall [us see: Through guileful! semblants which he makes ... And broke his staffe with which he charmed semblants sly. ..."

3. The Book of Gems: The Poets and Artists of Great Britain by Samuel Carter Hall (1836)
"... semblants, which he makes us see: He of this gardin had the ... his bowle disdainfully, And broke his staffe, with which he charmed semblants sly. ..."

4. The Famous Allegories by James Baldwin (1893)
"... semblants, which he makes us see: He of this gardin had the ... his bowle disdainfully, And broke his staffe, with which he charmed semblants sly. ..."

5. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... semblants,which he makes us see: He of this Gardin had the ... his bowle disdainfully, And broke his staffe, with which he charmed semblants sly. ..."

6. English Into French: Five Thousand English Locutions Rendered Into Idiomatic by D. N. Samson (1920)
"Des semblants,de repentir. Over and above .. . En sus (suss) de ... Dividende attribué aux actions en sus de l'intérêt statutaire. En plus de . ..."

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