semblant

noun, adj — 3 senses

semblant

noun

/ˈsɛmblənt/

Etymology Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

1

Obsolete One's outward appearance.

But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Derived terms: make semblant

semblant

adj

Etymology Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

1

Obsolete Like; resembling.

their eyes survey The semblant shade1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

2

Seeming, rather than real; apparent.

[C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):

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