seeming — Słownik języka angielskiego

Przymiotnik

1. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual).

   Synonimy

   apparentostensible

   Przykłady

   seeming friendship

   O, good my lord, you have lost a friend / And I dare swear you borrow not that face / Of seeming sorrow—it is sure your own.

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   I'le hide my anger in a seeming calm, And what I have to do, consult the while, And mask my vengeance underneath a smile.

   Of all the English philosophers, I most reverence Bacon, that great and hardy genius: he it is who, undaunted by the seeming difficulties that oppose, prompts human curiosity to examine every part of nature;

   […] she was overcome like the thirsty one who is drawn toward the seeming water in the desert […]

   […] though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts of all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them.

   All the A.C.V. four-wheel diesel railbuses are now stored in seeming disrepair at Derby Friargate.

   Fields (or “camps”) enclosed by chest-high wire fences now contain thousands of ostriches in seeming harmony, sometimes spread out like feathered chess pieces, sometimes seated in clusters.

Rzeczownik

1. Outward appearance.

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • niepoliczalne

   Przykłady

   My loue is strengthned though more weake in seeming I loue not lesse, thogh lesse the show appeare,

   And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming

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   I am not what I seemed to her, he thought, and doubtless she is not what she seemed to me, but it is our lot to be irrevocably condemned to seemings and to deserve them too.

2. Apprehension; judgement.

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • wyszłe z użycia
   • niepoliczalne

   Przykłady

   Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,

   […] in her ears the sound Yet rung of his perswasive words, impregn’d With Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth;

Przymiotnik

1. appearing as such but not necessarily so

   Synonimy

   apparentostensible

   Przykłady

   for all his apparent wealth, he had no money to pay the rent

   the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies

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   the ostensible truth of their theories

   his seeming honesty