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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Likeness \Like"ness\, n. [AS. gel[=i]cnes.]
1. The state or quality of being like similitude;
resemblance; similarity; as the likeness of the one to
the other is remarkable.
2. Appearance or form guise.
An enemy in the likeness of a friend. --L'Estrange.
3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
[How he looked] the likenesses of him which still
remain enable us to imagine. --Macaulay.
4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.]
He said to them Soothly ye shall say to me this
likeness, Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke
iv 23).
Syn: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation;
portrait; effigy.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
likeness
n 1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between
persons or things: "man created God in his own likeness"
[syn: {alikeness}, {similitude}] [ant: {unlikeness}, {unlikeness}]
2: a graphic image of a person or thing [syn: {semblance}]
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