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Definition of Appearances
1. appearance [n] - See also: appearance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appearances
Literary usage of Appearances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or by Emanuel Swedenborg (1874)
"This is effected*in a manner adequate to the comprehension of every one, wherefore
appearances of truth, that is, truths angelic and human, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1883)
"The adjacent skin was to all appearances normal, and had not been scratched.
This piece of skin was cut into a series of thirty sections, the first one ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Equally certain is it, that the Body and the Blood of Christ belong to the concept
of the essence, because it is not the mere unsubstantial appearances ..."
4. The Lancet (1839)
"The natural appearances may present varieties depending upon the age of the
subject,— First—In density ; Second—In colour. The morbid appearances may ..."
5. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1921)
"-r OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF appearances OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of
the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded, That may-be reliance and ..."