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appearance
English
Alternative forms
- appearaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French apparence, from Latin apparentia, from appareo.Displaced native Middle English wlite (“appearance”).
Morphologically appear +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p????ns/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??p???ns/
- Hyphenation: ap?pear?ance
Noun
appearance (countable and uncountable, plural appearances)
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- The way something looks; personal presence
- Synonyms: aspect, mien
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
- 1769, The King James Bible, Numbers ix. 15
- And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
- 1769, The King James Bible John vii. 24
- Judge not according to the appearance.
- 1769, The King James Bible, Numbers ix. 15
- (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained
- Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained
- (law) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
Synonyms
- (act of coming into sight): arrival, manifestation,
- (a thing seen): spectacle, apparition, phenomenon, presence
- (aspect of a person): aspect, air, figure, look, manner, mien
- (outward show): semblance, show, pretense, façade or facade
- (act of appearing in public): debut
Antonyms
- non-appearance, nonappearance
Derived terms
Related terms
- appear
- apparent
Translations
References
- appearance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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revelation
English
Etymology
From Middle English revelacioun, from Old French revelacion, from Latin rev?l?ti? (“disclosure”), from rev?l? (“to disclose”), re (“again”) + v?l? (“to cover”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v??le???n/
- Hyphenation: rev?e?la?tion
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
revelation (plural revelations)
- The act of revealing or disclosing.
- Something that is revealed.
- Something dramatically disclosed.
- (theology) A manifestation of divine truth.
- A great success.
Related terms
- reveal
Translations
Anagrams
- relevation
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