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seemings

seemings is the plural of seeming.

Meaning of seeming

Noun

seeming (countable and uncountable, plural seemings)

  1. Outward appearance.
    • My loue is strengthned though more weake in seeming
      I loue not lesse, thogh lesse the show appeare,1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 102”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Apprehension; judgement.
    • Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,1604, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London: Preface, page 39

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Questions about seemings

What is seemings the plural of?
Seemings is the plural of seeming.

Words near seemings in the dictionary

  1. seemest
  2. seemeth
  3. seeming
  4. seemingly
  5. seemingness
  6. seemings
  7. seemless
  8. seemlier
  9. seemliest
  10. seemlihead
  11. seemlihed

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