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Appearance   /əpˈɪrəns/   Listen
noun
Appearance  n.  
1.
The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
2.
A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.
3.
Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. "And now am come to see... It thy appearance answer loud report."
4.
Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. " There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire." "For man looketh on the outward appearance." "Judge not according to the appearance."
5.
The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. "Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?"
6.
Probability; likelihood. (Obs.) "There is that which hath no appearance."
7.
(Law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.
To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person.
To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show.
Synonyms: Coming; arrival; presence; semblance; pretense; air; look; manner; mien; figure; aspect.





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"Appearance" Quotes from Famous Books



... pause required after them is less than a full stop; as, "We shall consider these words, 1. as expressing resolution; and 2. as expressing futurity."—Butler's Gram., p. 106. But the period thus followed by a small letter, has not an agreeable appearance, and some would here prefer the comma, which is, undoubtedly, better suited to the pause, A fitter practice, however, would be, to change the expression thus: "We shall consider these words, 1st, as expressing resolution; and, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... right in his conclusions, remains to be proved; geologists will not fail to examine into his proofs. They may, however, remember, that Agassiz has remarked, that saw-dust through which water has been filtered, will 'assume a regular stratified appearance;' and that, in beds of clay and clay-slate, the deposits are such as to ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 - Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 • Various
... seemed to climb, with the path getting more difficult, save when here and there we came upon a nice bare spot free from stones, and covered with a short kind of herb that had the appearance ...
— Bunyip Land - A Story of Adventure in New Guinea • George Manville Fenn
... be improper in this place, seeing the many errors and mutilated translations which appear from time to time, of Arabic, Turkish and Persian papers, to give a list of the Muhamedan moons or lunar months, used by all those nations, which begin with the first appearance of the new moon, that is, the day following, or sometimes two days after the change, and continue till they see the next new moon; these have been mutilated to such a degree in all our English translations, that I shall ...
— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa • Abd Salam Shabeeny
... hint or warning she turned up in Mauravania, accompanied by a disreputable one-eyed man who has the manner and appearance of one bred in the gutters of Paris, albeit he is well clothed, well-looked after, and she treats him and his wretched collection of parakeets ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew


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