resemblance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RESEM'BLANCE, noun [See Resemble.] 1. Likeness; similitude, either of external form or of qualities. We observe a resemblance between persons, a resemblance in shape, a resemblance in manners, a resemblance in dispositions. Painting and poetry bear a great resemblance to each other, as one object of both is to please. 2. Something similar; similitude; representation. These sensible things which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual. Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair -
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