Define semblance. Semblance synonyms, semblance pronunciation, semblance translation, English dictionary definition of semblance. An outward or token appearance: 'Foolish men mistake transitory semblance for eternal fact'. A representation; a copy. The barest trace; a.

Rain world youtube. At first a part of the population were content with Austrian rule, which provided an honest and efficient administration; but the rigid system of centralization which, while allowing the semblance of local autonomy, sent every minute question for settlement to Vienna; the severe police metho4ls; the bureaucracy, in which the best appointments were usually conferred on Germans or Slays wholly dependent on Vienna, proved galling to the people, and in view of the growing disnffection the country was turned into a vast armed camp. In Modena Duke Francis proved a cruel tyrant.