semblant

• semblaunt (obsolete)

Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmblənt/

semblant (plural semblants)

1. (obsolete) One's outward appearance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]

• make semblant

semblant (comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)

1. (obsolete) Like; resembling.
   • 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 1103119849:

     their eyes survey
     The semblant shade

2. (obsolete) Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, OCLC 191225086, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):

     [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.

From semblar, or possibly from Late Latin similāns, similāntem, present participle of similō, from Latin similis.

semblant (masculine and feminine plural semblants)

1. similar
2. such

   Synonym: tal

   No és lícit de recórrer a semblants mitjans.

   It's not right to resort to such means.

• semblantment
• versemblant

• semblança

semblant

1. present participle of semblar

• “semblant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “semblant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “semblant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “semblant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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semblant

1. present participle of sembler

semblant m (plural semblants)

1. a semblance (of something)

• faire semblant
• faux-semblant

• “semblant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.