similitude
Americannoun
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similitudes
plural
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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
In the case of Chrishna of India, in particular, the similitude is very striking in nearly every feature of the whole story.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
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
In states of deep sorrow or strong trial, when the heart turns from the natural world, hopeless of aid or consolation, truth often comes in dreams and similitudes.
From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Scores of other similitudes between Saturn and Abraham could here be introduced did space permit.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
Parallel similitudes which, however, mean no more than the eternity of the gods, could be made even among the Arians of Iran.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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