appearance
/əˈpiɹ.əns/ noun A2- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye. · His sudden appearance surprised me.
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition. · There was a strange appearance in the sky.
- The way something looks; personal presence
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others. · Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance.
- That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character. · A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.· David Beckham's first appearance with the LA Galaxy at Giants Stadium against the New York Red Bulls last night drew a crowd of 66237.
- An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient. · The patient had a small bowel obstruction and there was no appearance until after the obstruction resolved.
Plural appearances
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Danglars, however, who now made his appearance, accompanied by Caderousse, effectually confirmed the report, stating that he had recently conversed with M.
Meanwhile Fernand made his appearance, poured out for himself a glass of water with a trembling hand; then hastily swallowing it, went to sit down at the first vacant place, and this was, by mere chance, placed next to the seat on which poor Mercédès had fallen half fainting, when released from the warm and affectionate embrace of old Dantès.
“Ah,” said the Marquise de Saint-Méran, a woman with a stern, forbidding eye, though still noble and distinguished in appearance, despite her fifty years—“ah, these revolutionists, who have driven us from those very possessions they afterwards purchased for a mere trifle during the Reign of Terror, would be compelled to own, were they here, that all true devotion was on our side, since we were content to follow the fortunes of a falling monarch, while they, on the contrary, made their fortune by worshipping the rising sun; yes, yes, they could not help admitting that the king, for whom we sacrificed rank, wealth, and station was truly our ‘Louis the well-beloved,’ while their wretched usurper has been, and ever will be, to them their evil genius, their ‘Napoleon the accursed.’ Am I not right, Villefort?”
The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could.
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