Found 2 items, similar to Similitude.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: similitude
similitude
n 1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between
persons or things;
“man created God in his own likeness”
[syn:
likeness,
alikeness] [ant:
unlikeness,
unlikeness]
2: a duplicate copy [syn:
counterpart,
twin]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Similitude
Similitude
\Si*mil"i*tude\, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo,
from similis similar. See
Similar.]
1. The quality or state of being similar or like;
resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of
substance. --Chaucer.
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Let us make now man in our image, man
In our similitude. --Milton.
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If fate some future bard shall join
In sad similitude of griefs to mine. --Pope.
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2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to
another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
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Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the
woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from
the country. --Dryden.
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3. That which is like or similar; a representation,
semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
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Man should wed his similitude. --Chaucer.
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