similitudes
- plural of similitude.
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
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
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 Benson, Arthur Christopher
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)
