Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RESEMBLANCE
resemblance
(noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
resemblance (countable and uncountable, plural resemblances)
The quality or state of resembling
Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
A comparison; a simile.
Probability; verisimilitude.
Synonyms
• likeness
Source: Wiktionary
Re*sem"blance (-blans), n. Etym: [Cf. F. ressemblance. See Resemble.]
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden.
2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual. Hooker.
3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn.
– Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; image.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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