noun
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lustre, brightness; brilliance; splendour.
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an outward appearance, (chiefly the fallacious rather than being true); a thing as it appears in perception as distinguished from the thing as it is in itself; a phenomenon.
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the state, fact or quality of resembling; similarity of appearance; resemblance; likeness.
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an intention; a purpose.
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the deception caused by outward appearance, i.e. non-realisation of the true fact; illusion.
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(log.) a fallacy, a fallacious reasoning, semblance of a reason; an erroneous but plausible argument.
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the object which is mistaken by its outward appearance; a misconceived thing or subject.