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likeness |
2 definitions found 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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