Dictionary

semblant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɛmblənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Like; resembling.
   • their eyes survey The semblant shade 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
2. Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
   • [C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master. 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):

Forms

semblant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɛmblənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) One's outward appearance.
   • But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

make semblant