Assent vs Resemblance - What's the difference?
assent | resemblance | Related terms |
To agree to, give approval.
* Macaulay
To admit a thing as true.
* Bible, Acts xxiv. 9
The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
A comparison; a simile.
Probability; verisimilitude.
Assent is a related term of resemblance.
As nouns the difference between assent and resemblance
is that assent is agreement, act of agreeing while resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.As a verb assent
is to agree to, give approval.assent
English
Verb
(en verb)- The princess assented to all that was suggested.
- And the Jews also assented , saying that these things were so.
Synonyms
* accede *Synonyms
*Anagrams
* ----resemblance
English
Alternative forms
* resemblaunceNoun
(en noun)- Words' and '''things''' were united in their ''''''resemblance''''''. Renaissance man thought in terms of '''similitudes''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. There were four ranges of '''resemblance'''.
'''Aemulation''' was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
'''Convenientia''' connected things near to one another, e.g. animal and plant, making a great “chain” of being.
'''Analogy''': a wider range based less on likeness than on similar relations.
'''Sympathy''' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.