seeming

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈsiːmɪŋ/

Etymology: By surface analysis, seem + -ing.

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

Etymology: By surface analysis, seem + -ing.

Outward appearance.
“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”
Apprehension; judgement.
“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;”

Etymology: By surface analysis, seem + -ing.