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assemblances

assemblances is the plural of assemblance.

Meaning of assemblance

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

Questions about assemblances

What is assemblances the plural of?
Assemblances is the plural of assemblance.

Words near assemblances in the dictionary

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

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