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noun

Similitude n.

The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. "Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude." "If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine."

The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile. "Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country."

That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. "Man should wed his similitude."

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Etymology of 'Similitude'

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"Similitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... country. Perceiving he was not thoroughly understood, he delineated a sketch of New Zealand with chalk on the floor of a room set apart for that purpose. From a comparison which Governor King made with Captain Cook's plan of those islands, a sufficient similitude to the form of the northern island was discoverable to render this attempt an object of curiosity; and Too-gee was persuaded to describe his delineation on paper. This being done with a pencil, corrections and ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins

... no poet; but he had a good idea of this every-day strife with the foes of error and sin that crossed his path. It was a practical conception, but it was truly expressed under the similitude of a battle. There was to be resistance, and he could comprehend that, for his bump of combativeness took cognizance of the suggestion. He was to fight; and that was an idea that stood him in better stead than a whole library of ...

— Now or Never - The Adventures of Bobby Bright • Oliver Optic

... eye of the observer this diagnostic peculiarity, that the huge brass plates upon the small and highly coloured doors bore only the first names of ladies—Norah or Lily or Florence; traversed China Town, where it was doubtless undermined with opium cellars, and its blocks pierced, after the similitude of rabbit-warrens, with a hundred doors and passages and galleries; enjoyed a glimpse of high publicity at the corner of Kearney; and proceeded, among dives and warehouses, towards the City Front and the region of the water-rats. In this last stage of its career, where it was both grimy ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... the impious assembly. At the same moment the fire on the rock shot redly forth and formed a glowing arch above its base, where now appeared a figure. With reverence be it spoken, the figure bore no slight similitude, both in garb and manner, to some grave divine ...

— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Briary," and it was there I was staying for a little while in August. He very kindly showed me the scenery—as it can be seen from a carriage—and I discerned that the "Lake Country" is a glorious region, of which I had only seen the similitude in dream—waking or sleeping. But, my dear Miss Wooler, I only half enjoyed it, because I was only half at my ease. Decidedly I find it does not agree with me to prosecute the search of the picturesque in a carriage; a waggon, a spring-cart, even a post-chaise might do, but the carriage upsets ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

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