assemblance
English
Alternative forms
- assemblaunce (obsolete)
Noun
assemblance (plural assemblances)
- (obsolete) Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, OCLC 55178895, [Act 3, scene 2]:
- Care I for the Limbe, the Thewes, the ſtature, bulke, and bigge aſſemblance of a man?
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- (obsolete) An assembling; assemblage.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book V, canto IIII, page 230:
- […] A rout of people farre away; / To whom his courſe he haſtily applide, / To weete the cauſe of their aſſemblaunce wide.
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References
- assemblance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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