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noun

Likeness n.

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

Appearance or form; guise. "An enemy in the likeness of a friend."

That which closely resembles; a portrait. "(How he looked) the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine."

A comparison; parable; proverb. (Obs.) "He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself."

Synonyms: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.

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"Likeness" Quotes from Famous Books

... chair opposite. His likeness to Columbine had faded now. It had been love, a spirit, a radiance, a glory. It was gone. And Wade's face became the emblem ...

— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey

... to a painted chest of reeds, she took from it a wonderful shirt of mail fashioned of bronze rings, and a short sword also of bronze, having a golden hilt of which the end was shaped to the likeness of the head of a lion, and with her own hands gave ...

— Moon of Israel • H. Rider Haggard

... acquaintance, you knew she was good through and through. There was no mistaking that. But was she good enough? Was any girl good enough for him? And who was that with her? Probably her mother who probably too was the catamount's sister. They had a family likeness. Then at once the scene shifted. Cassy was in a room floored with thick rugs, hung with heavy draperies, and in that room the catamount had hired her to sing! But the disgust of it passed. The curtain fell. ...

— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... search on the part of antiquarians has not brought them to light. His portrait in the town hall at St. Malo shows us a man of firm and strong features with jaws tight-set, a high forehead, and penetrating eyes. Unhappily it is of relatively recent workmanship and as a likeness of the great Malouin its trustworthiness is at least questionable. Fearless and untiring, however, his own indisputable achievements amply prove him to have been. The tasks set before him were difficult ...

— Crusaders of New France - A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness - Chronicles of America, Volume 4 • William Bennett Munro

... "that you should see a likeness to some one whom you have seen and yet cannot name, the more so that the face is not a ...

— Little Frida - A Tale of the Black Forest • Anonymous

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