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SEEMING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appearing as such but not necessarily so
Example:
his seeming honesty
Synonyms:
apparent; ostensible; seeming
Classified under:
Similar:
superficial (concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb seem
Context examples:
It was as a cue to him, seeming to rouse him to do what he would never have dreamed of doing.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The pace of life will pick up immediately, seeming to speed up from 25 to over 150 miles-an-hour.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Next, after a seeming century or so, with Cheese-Face weakening fast, in a mix-up of blows there was a loud snap, and Martin's right arm dropped to his side.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The two creatures stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen with great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed frequently towards each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I may have said somewhere in this chronicle that I am too imaginative to be a really courageous man, but that I have an overpowering fear of seeming afraid.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And it seemed to me that his eyes were strange, not only the expression, but the physical seeming, as though the optic nerves and supporting muscles had suffered strain and slightly twisted the eyeballs.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
After an evening, the little variety and seeming length of which made her peculiarly sensible of Henry's importance among them, she was heartily glad to be dismissed; though it was a look from the general not designed for her observation which sent his daughter to the bell.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a very good grace, but without seeming really at all ashamed of what he had done.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
