Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Representation; likeness; semblance.
- noun An assemblage; an assembly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
- noun obsolete An assembling; assemblage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Resemblance ;likeness ;appearance . - noun obsolete An
assembling ;assemblage .
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Examples
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I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day.
Chapter 10 2010
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Basically, you cannot escape the reality of following some order of assemblance, a hierarchy and well, just plain rules in general.
Alexandra Holzer: "Some of My Best Friends Are Ghosts!" Alexandra Holzer 2011
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"Record of Lodoss War" is pretty much nothing much than an assemblance of Western RPG tropes.
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Any American with an assemblance of intelligence and initiative to “question authority” knew long before the first bombs dropped in Iraq that we were headed to a bogus war that we would not be able to get out of quickly.
McClellan’s Book Bubble Bursts on the Blogs - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Prepared in the sense that a nation held hostage by dictatorship could possibly be freed, but only free for a brief moment in thought by North Korean citizens of the death of a man who symbolized a reign of control so frigid and strong, no assemblance of the persecuted could rise and retaliate?
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There's quite an assemblance of general announcements today, so this may get a little long.
Filmstalker: Stalked: Harris, Hathaway, Depp, Rick James, Galahad 2006
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A patchwork or quilt like assemblance of world order will be the more fufilling chioce for all of us.
Think Progress » Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada 2006
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Care I for the limb, the thewes, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man!
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I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day.
Frankenstein 2003
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KING: Is that the greatest assemblance of broadcasters ever?
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