assemblance
English
Alternative forms
- assemblaunce (obsolete)
Noun
assemblance (countable and uncountable, plural assemblances)
- (obsolete) Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- 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: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam 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.
Anagrams
- mescal beans