semblantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛmblənt/

名詞

semblant (plural semblants)

1. (obsolete) One's outward appearance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]

派生語

• make semblant

形容詞

semblant (comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)

1. (obsolete) Like; resembling.
   • 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     their eyes survey
     The semblant shade

2. Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):

     [C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master.