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Definition of Semblant
1. a. Like; resembling.
2. n. Show; appearance; figure; semblance.
Definition of Semblant
1. Noun. (obsolete) One's outward appearance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semblant
1. a likeness or copy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semblant
Literary usage of Semblant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"THE semblant PROGRESSION 18. We are now in a position to isolate the motives ...
The advance, in its first stage, we may call the " semblant progression," ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"Here in its violation the positiveness of the positively aesthetic stands out
clearly. § 7. semblant FEELING AND THE FEELING OF SEMBLANCE. 39. ..."
3. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"(b) The Effect of the semblant Mode in Simple Appreciation. The effect of the
semblant, aesthetic mode in simple appreciation has already been shown, ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"semblant prepared hath Sabine, of a dune, In Britain, with her walls of wattled
trees, And stones and hoarded earth ; and wicker streets. ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Jut this wote well the heuen kyng, That sithen first the worlde began Jnto none
other strange man ie feigned I semblant ne chère, 'o wite or aske of his ..."
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