semblants

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

APPARENCE, _f. _, ce qui apparaît au dehors; faux semblants; probabilité.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

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

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

"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