See seeming in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 736-738:",
"text": "[…] in her ears the sound\nYet rung of his perswasive words, impregn’d\nWith Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth;",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Apprehension; judgement."
],
"links": [
[
"Apprehension",
"apprehension"
],
[
"judgement",
"judgement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Apprehension; judgement."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"obsolete",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsiːmɪŋ/"
},
{
"homophone": "seaming"
},
{
"homophone": "seming"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːmɪŋ"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎnšen vid",
"sense": "outward appearance",
"word": "външен вид"
},
{
"alt": "うわべ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "uwabe",
"sense": "outward appearance",
"word": "上辺"
},
{
"alt": "みせかけ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "misekake",
"sense": "outward appearance",
"word": "見せ掛け"
}
],
"word": "seeming"
}
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