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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.
Pronunciation
Noun
semblant (plural semblants)
- (obsolete) One's outward appearance.
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Adjective
semblant (comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)
- (obsolete) Like; resembling.
1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:their eyes survey
The semblant shade
- (obsolete) Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
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):[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.
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Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin similantem, present active participle of similāre (“resemble”), a verb based on Latin similis (“similar”). By surface analysis, semblar + -ant.
Adjective
semblant m or f (masculine and feminine plural semblants)
- similar
- such
- Synonym: tal
No és lícit de recórrer a semblants mitjans.- It's not right to resort to such means.
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Verb
semblant
- gerund of semblar
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French
Pronunciation
Participle
semblant
- present participle of sembler
Noun
semblant m (plural semblants)
- a semblance (of something)
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