Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Seeming

Seeming , adjective

Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.
My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own. — Shakespeare

Seeming , noun

1.
Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.
These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. — Shakespeare
2.
Apprehension; judgment. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Nothing more clear unto their seeming. — Hooker
His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. — Milton