likeness

«likeness» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: resemblance; image — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

resemblance; image

part of speech

noun (a likeness, likenesses)

meaning for a pupil

Being like something, or a picture or image of someone. tree →

how it differs from today

Today a likeness is a resemblance or a portrait. In the first sentence "likeness" means the form or image in which God made man, which is an old sense.

examples

• In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; (Torah GEN.5.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• That was my idea, and there stands his likeness." (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes, which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →

primary record

likeness

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 47 (Torah 11, tales 34, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 5.3 (Torah alone 25.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;
• the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
• the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
• Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?
• And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «likeness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.