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Definition of Likenesses
1. likeness [n] - See also: likeness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Likenesses
Literary usage of Likenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetic Mind by Frederick Clarke Prescott (1922)
"CHAPTER XIII SYMBOLS AND FIGURES ALL human thought proceeds ultimately through
a recognition of relations and likenesses. At first the mind sees ..."
2. Lessons from Nature, as Manifested in Mind and Matter by St. George Jackson Mivart (1876)
"likenesses IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS. " The facts of mimicry and of the various kinds
of homology as exhibited in comparative anatomy, teratology and pathology, ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"the perception of likenesses—and the clearness of the several faculties will be
in the same ratio as the truth of the objects to which they are related. ..."
4. Elements of Art Criticism: Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's by George Whitefield Samson (1876)
"It was a distinct, and, in one sense, higher style, when exact likenesses of
living men were cut in marble; and the artist sought to catch in sculpture not ..."
5. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1872)
"The pretended likenesses of Seneca cannot represent him, as I will hereafter show.
Genuine heads of Nero are very rare, and of the one in the Capitoline ..."
6. Hereditary Descent: Its Laws and Facts Applied to Human Improvement by Orson Squire Fowler (1852)
"Of course these likenesses are he- reditary ; especially since this nation has
... FAMILY likenesses, ALSO every where abound. Women are shrewd observers, ..."
7. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"Such likenesses were illustrated by a reference to the similarity which could
... In connection with the limb- likenesses in question, certain important ..."
8. Reading by Jo Ellen Moore (2005)
"... Identifying likenesses and Differences Fine Motor Skills: Using Scissors;
Tracing Unit 4 Letter C 22 Phonemic Awareness: Listening for the Id Sound ..."
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