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assemblance

assemblance noun: resemblance; likeness; appearance.

Noun

assemblance (countable and uncountable, plural assemblances)

  1. (obsolete) Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
    • [C]are I for the limbe, the thevves, the ſtature, bulke and big aſſemblance of a man: giue me the ſpirit […]c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
  2. (obsolete) An assembling; assemblage.
    • […] A rout of people farre away; / To whom his courſe he haſtily applide, / To weete the cauſe of their aſſemblaunce wide.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 230

Forms of assemblance

pluralassemblances
alternative formassemblaunce

Questions about assemblance

What does assemblance mean?
Assemblance means resemblance; likeness; appearance.
What part of speech is assemblance?
Assemblance is a noun.
What is the plural of assemblance?
The plural of assemblance is assemblances.

Words near assemblance in the dictionary

  1. assemblage points
  2. assemblage theory
  3. assemblages
  4. assemblagist
  5. assemblagists
  6. assemblance
  7. assemblances
  8. assemblaunce
  9. assemblaunces
  10. assemble
  11. assembled

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