Like"ness , n. [AS. gelīcnes.]
1. The state or
quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other
is remarkable.
2. Appearance or form; guise.
An
enemy in the likeness of a friend.
L'Estrange. 3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
[How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to
imagine.
Macaulay.
4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.]
He said to them, Soothly ye shall say
to me this
likeness, Leech, heal thyself.
Wyclif (Luke iv. 23). Syn. -- Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.
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