seeming

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of seem

adj

1. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual).

   “seeming friendship”

   “O, good my lord, you have lost a friend / And I dare swear you borrow not that face / Of seeming sorrow—it is sure your own.”

   “I'le hide my anger in a seeming calm, And what I have to do, consult the while, And mask my vengeance underneath a smile.”

   “Of all the English philosophers, I most reverence Bacon, that great and hardy genius: he it is who, undaunted by the seeming difficulties that oppose, prompts human curiosity to examine every part of nature;”

   “[…] she was overcome like the thirsty one who is drawn toward the seeming water in the desert […]”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Outward appearance.

   “My loue is strengthned though more weake in seeming I loue not lesse, thogh lesse the show appeare,”

   “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming”

   “I am not what I seemed to her, he thought, and doubtless she is not what she seemed to me, but it is our lot to be irrevocably condemned to seemings and to deserve them too.”

2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Apprehension; judgement.

   “Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,”

   “[…] in her ears the sound Yet rung of his perswasive words, impregn’d With Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth;”