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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

... lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live." From her grave, which was soon made by the side of kindred dust, Jesus will raise her up at the last day; her voice will come to that body; her youthful beauty will be reestablished by her likeness to Christ's own glorious body; she will lean upon my arm again; the separation and absence will enhance the joy of meeting; we shall say, How like a hand-breadth was the separation! We shall see reasons ...

— Catharine • Nehemiah Adams

... account of this conspiracy in Ctesias seems more improbable than that afforded to us by Herodotus. But in both the most extraordinary features of the plot are the same, viz., the striking likeness between the impostor and the dead prince, and the complete success which, for a time, attended the fraud. In both narrations, too, we can perceive, behind the main personages ostensibly brought forward, the outline of a profound device of the magi to win back from the Persian ...

— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Shaman tells that it is by such likeness that the Great Spirit showeth the goose foot plant to be charged with ...

— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson

... be mute, remember how mute is the tomb. You, who appear deaf, remember that damnation is more deaf. Think of the death which is worse than your present state. Repent! You are about to be left alone in this cell. Listen! you who are my likeness; for I am a man! Listen, my brother, because I am a Christian! Listen, my son, because I am an old man! Look at me; for I am the master of your sufferings, and I am about to become terrible. The terrors of the law make up the majesty of ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... Kowalevsky as early as 1866.[418] Tornaria was discovered by J. Mueller in 1850, but by him considered an Asterid larva; its true nature as the larva of Balanoglossus was made out by Metschnikoff in 1870, who also remarked upon its extraordinary likeness to the larvae of Echinoderms.[419] That it had some relationship with Vertebrates was recognised by Semper, Gegenbaur and others, but the full working-out of its Vertebrate affinities is ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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