likeness
IPA: ɫˈaɪknʌs
noun
- The state or quality of being like or alike
- Appearance or form; guise.
- That which closely resembles; a portrait.
verb
- (archaic, transitive) To depict.
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Examples of "likeness" in Sentences
- Is that a photo of Lily because the likeness is astonishing!
- Maybe that†™ s why it kind of bothers me that Reeve†™ s likeness is being used here.
- Now that might be because honestly how many creative ways can an aircraft carrier in space be filmed, but, the likeness is uncanny.
- She has also become a popular Halloween costume for people, in which her likeness is replicated on Facebook fan pages and on Flickr.
- It sets up a connection between two centres -- man and God -- which can only be connected because of a fundamental likeness subsisting between them; but the _likeness_ is not
- We shall find that they originate by the perfecting of this same idea of likeness; that they have their rise in that conception of _complete likeness_ which, as we have seen, necessarily results from the continued process of classification.
- The next thing was a piece of paper; he dived his hand down into another pocket, producing a rusty knife, pieces of string, a chestnut or two, and, finally, a crumpled piece of paper on which Bob Turner had scrawled what he called a likeness of Mr. Burrows, and given to Tip for a keepsake.
- As though he had said, "All these other creatures are your property, designed for your use -- they have the likeness of earth, they perish with the using, and their spirits go downward; but this other being, MAN, has my own _likeness_; IN THE IMAGE OF GOD made I man; an intelligent, moral, immortal agent, invited to all that I can give and he can be."
- So I determined I would not send it, indeed, I promised them I would not send it; but, notwithstanding, as I know Miss Russell will be good enough to comply with my conditions, I will send it directly; for, as it is a good likeness, every one except the family knowing it instantly, and Mr. Allston saying that it is a _very strong likeness_, it will on that account be a gratification to her.
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