Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LIKE'NESS
LIKE'NESS, n.
- Resemblance in form; similitude. The picture is a good likeness of the original.
- Resemblance; form; external appearance. Guard against an enemy in the likeness of a friend.
- One that resembles another; a copy; a counterpart. I took you for your likeness, Chloe. – Prior.
- An image, picture or statue, resembling a person or thing. – Exod. xx.
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