Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or exhibiting resemblance; resembling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling.
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- adjective Having a
resemblance (to).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The left, right, and center are afflicted with resemblant strains of the virus.
Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010
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Arguments could be raised on the reality and resemblant philosophies of any world religion, this in a whole can make Traditional Satanism as any religion unstable in the ever changing world.
The Satanic Perspective on the USA’s Troubling Times | Disinformation 2008
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It appears at first glance that this deployment has several more gaps than the last and that one, frankly, was resemblant of Swiss cheese.
Left Behind? No. Taking on My World Alone? Um, Yeah. - SpouseBUZZ 2008
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While many musicians might not be able to pull this kind of thing off very well, Parsons does a solid job, and winds up with a great tune resemblant of some of the crazier works of Mark Bragg.
A Western Goodbye 2007
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The things that act upon each other are branchings from a far-off beginning and so stand distinct; but they derive initially from the one source: all interaction is like that of brothers, resemblant as drawing life from the same parents.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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The resultant colours correspond to the form of these obstructions; but the correspondence is relational not resemblant.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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They quite understood that Knowledge is not of the nature of a photograph -- a resemblant pictorial reproduction of the data furnished by sensation.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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Only very casually and occasionally do we ever attempt to supply ourselves with a resemblant reproduction of our sensations.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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{A} _Religio Medici_, a new edition, with its sequel, _Christian Morals_, and resemblant passages from Cowper's _Task_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various
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The features of the Sensible World correspond therefore to the laws of our exertional activity, but the correspondence is relational, not resemblant.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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