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- noun Plural form of
semblant .
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Examples
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Penetrating thought may arrive at it, discriminating it from Authentic Existence; then, it is discerned as something abandoned by all that really is, by even the dimmest semblants of being, as a thing dragged towards every shape and property and appearing to follow — yet in fact not even following.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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APPARENCE, _f. _, ce qui apparaît au dehors; faux semblants; probabilité.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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In shams and "faux semblants" he sees the true source of good and evil, the touchstone of right and wrong, the main difference between the worthy and the unworthy.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Lack of sincerity, all the shapes and sorts of "faux semblants," or
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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"merveilleux semblants," as Rutebeuf said, fill him with inextinguishable hatred.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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