similitude
noun
likeness; resemblance.
similitudes
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pluralof similitude.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Pious minds have been disturbed by these similitudes.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
We are accustomed to their shifting similitudes, their inability to express themselves, their pretensions, and their good nature.
From A Practical Novelist by John Davidson
There fell into his hands Tauler's "Theologia Germanica," that precious treatise that, through similitudes, spoke so clearly of God; the work that had been so beloved of Luther.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
