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LIKENESSES
Noun
likenesses
plural of likeness
Source: Wiktionary
LIKENESS
Like"ness, n. Etym: [AS. gelicnes.]
1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.
2. Appearance or form; guise. An enemy in the likeness of a friend. L'Estrange.
3. That which closely resembles; a portrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. Macaulay.
4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.] He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).
Syn.
– Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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