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Definition of Semblants
1. semblant [n] - See also: semblant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semblants
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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