For example,
After the war, Dresden retained little [re]semblance of its former self.
Although he'd quit drinking, his lifestyle continued in some [re]semblance of its former self.
I came across "resemblance" used this way and it sounded odd to me.
Best Answer
At their core, the terms resemblance and semblance do not really belong to the same cluster of synonyms.
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