LIKENESS

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

2.
n.

Appearance or form; guise. An enemy in the likeness of a friend. L'Estrange.

3.
n.

That which closely resembles; a portrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. Macaulay.

4.
n.

A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.] He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).