Both Uses
semblance
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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- He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor's bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone; and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.†
p. 64.6
- I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh.†
p. 88.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(semblance) the outward appearance of something -- especially when the reality is different or incomplete
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)