Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Resemblance

Resemblance (-blans) , noun

[Compare French ressemblance. See Resemble.]

1.
The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. — Dryden
2.
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual. — Hooker
3.
A comparison; a simile. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
4.
Probability; verisimilitude. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare