Category:Resemblance

Re*sem"blance (-blans), n. Etym: [cf. F. ressemblance. See resemble.]

1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; Similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great Resemblance to each other. Dryden.

2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances Formed according to things spiritual. Hooker.

3. A comparison; a simile. [obs.] Chaucer.

4. Probability; verisimilitude. [obs.] Shak.

Syn. -- likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; Image.