exact likeness

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What she is after is not an exact likeness "like the right kind of nose, but rather, character resemblance."

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week he pronounced the job good: "an almost exact likeness."

From Time Magazine Archive

In her face is my exact likeness; I see my own hair, cheeks, and nose, all mirrored in miniature.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Van himself, could he have heard Mr. P., would have been forced to admit, that a more exact likeness never was drawn.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

Properly an apparition in the exact likeness of a person, supposed by the vulgar to be seen before, or soon after, death.”

From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Owen, Elias