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apparency arch. or Obs.|əˈpɛərənsɪ, əˈpær-|
Also 5 apparancie, 6–7 -cy.
[ad. L. appārēntia, abst. n. f. appārēnt-em: see apparent and -ancy, -ency. Cf. transparency. Strictly, it seems to have been at first formed on ME. apparance, -aunt (see prec. and next) with the -ie, -y repr. L. -ia.]
†1. The quality, state, or fact of appearing or seeming; seemingness, semblance, appearance. Obs.
1393Gower Conf. I. 63 This double ypocrisie With his devoute apparancie A viser set upon his face. 1597Daniel Civ. Wars vii. lxi, Both sides did labour..to crown Their cause with the apparency of might. 1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 8 Who not comparable to him in reality, would yet seem to excell him in apparency. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xviii. 644 Apparencies, which have informed me when the patient has been any way irregular.
2. The quality of being apparent to the senses; visibility, apparentness. rare.
1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. ix. 315 Saphœda (so cal'd because of its apparency more than other foot-Veins). 1810Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 90 The non-apparency of either..being accounted for by the disproportion of our senses.
3. The quality of being apparent or evident to the mind; show of reason; apparentness.
1604E. G. D'Acosta's Hist. Ind. i. xi. 36 Some..strive to proove, that the new-found world was knowne to the Ancients. And..wee cannot deny, but that there was some apparency. 1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 123 Yet would you, that God should fauour your infidelity by extraordinary wayes. What apparancy is there for this?
4. The position of being heir apparent.
1741T. Robinson Gavelkind ii. ii. 183 Tho' he is Heir apparent at that Time, yet there is not that constant and perpetual Apparency. 1815Encycl. Brit. XI. 655/2 The bare right of apparency founds the action against the life-renter. |