Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Semblance

Semblance , noun

[F. See Semblable, a.]

1.
Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. — Fairfax
2.
Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
Only semblances or imitations of shells. — Woodward