resemblant

[ ri-zem-bluhnt ]

adjective

having a resemblance or similarity (sometimes followed by to): two persons with resemblant features.
that produces or deals in representations: sculpture considered as a resemblant art.

Origin of resemblant

1350–1400; Middle English <Old French, equivalent to resembl(er) to resemble + -ant-ant

Only very casually and occasionally do we ever attempt to supply ourselves with a resemblant reproduction of our sensations.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge | Alexander Philip
The resultant colours correspond to the form of these obstructions; but the correspondence is relational not resemblant.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge | Alexander Philip
The object of the great resemblant Arts is, and always has been, to resemble; and to resemble as closely as possible.
The Crown of Wild Olive | John Ruskin
When the lion saw that, he made no resemblant to fight with him, but made him all the cheer that a beast might make a man.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) | Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

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