similitude
Americannoun
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likeness; resemblance.
a similitude of habits.
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a person or thing that is like or the match or counterpart of another.
This expression is a similitude of the other.
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semblance; image.
a similitude of the truth.
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a likening or comparison in the form of a simile, parable, or allegory.
He spoke by similitudes.
noun
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likeness; similarity
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a thing or sometimes a person that is like or the counterpart of another
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archaic a simile, allegory, or parable
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Etymology
Origin of similitude
1325–75; Middle English < Latin similitūdō likeness, equivalent to simili ( s ) similar + -tūdō -tude
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By combining the terminal speed of the sphere's fall with the resistance the sphere encounters from the fluid as it falls, researchers can determine an analogue for the Reynolds similitude.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
“Everyone says that we have a similitude with Guardiola’s teams and especially when he was the coach of Barça,” Bonmatí said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
The diversity of the world outside of the campus is limited and regimented by the similitude of the vocation.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2018
Mark the course of this Bishop Hughs for the last few years, and you will be struck with the exact similitude which in every feature exists between itself and that of Rodin.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write.
From Time Magazine Archive
What do we actually know respecting those two men, whose masks, the preserved similitudes of the living features with which they once fronted the world, are now before us?
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
By pursuing the analogies of nature, the human mind reduces to order the vagaries of the imagination, and bodies them forth in forms of loveliness and in similitudes of heaven.
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by Rhodes, W. H. (William Henry)
Do we not avoid as much as possible all such similitudes, as being derogatory to our notions of the Supreme?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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