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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

... every incident and word in the scene, knitting into one central moment all the clews to the plot of two romances, as the rich boss of a Gothic vault gathers the shaft moldings of it, can only be felt by an entirely attentive reader; just as (to follow out the likeness on Scott's own ground) the willow-wreaths changed to stone of Melrose tracery can only be caught in their plighting by the keenest eyes. The meshes are again gathered by the master's own hand when the child now in Halbert's arms, twenty years hence, stoops over him to unlace his helmet, as the fallen ...

— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... . . . . . HOPE holds to Christ the mind's own mirror out To take His lovely likeness more and more. It will not well, so she would bring about An ever brighter burnish than before And turns to wash it from her welling eyes And breathes the blots off all with sighs on sighs. Her glass is blest but she as good as blind ...

— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins

... can be rightly judged by the standard of pleasure, which makes or furnishes no utility or truth or likeness, nor on the other hand is productive of any hurtful quality, but exists solely for the sake of the accompanying charm; and the term 'pleasure' is most appropriately applied to it when these ...

— Laws • Plato

... portions were good, and they would have been co-heiresses but for their brother Arthur. He was the youngest, but so different from his mother and sisters, that you wouldn't have thought him of the same family. His fair face and clear blue eyes, his curly brown hair and merry look, had no likeness to them, though he was not a whit behind them in air or stature. At eighteen, there was not a finer lad in the shire; and he had a frank, kindly nature, which made the tenantry rejoice in the prospect of his being ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 - Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 • Various

... Imperial troop, Duerer had many opportunities of meeting men of this kind, for such were constantly passing through Nuremberg. Duerer has left us what are evidently portraits of some whose names are lost: of others we have both name and likeness, among them the ...

— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore

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