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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Likelihood \Like"li*hood\ (-l[i^]*h[oo^]d), n. [Likely + -hood.]
1. Appearance; show sign; expression. [Obs.]
What of his heart perceive you in his face By any
likelihood he showed to-day ? --Shak.
2. Likeness; resemblance. [Obs.]
There is no likelihood between pure light and black
darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability;
verisimilitude. --Tennyson.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
likelihood
n : the probability of a specified outcome [syn: {likeliness}, {odds}]
[ant: {unlikelihood}, {unlikelihood}]
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