seeming

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.

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

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;