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
Its thought buried itself in similitudes and allusions.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Thus both are hortatory writings, the one argumentative in form, the other prophetic, after the manner of later Old Testament prophets whose messages came in visions and similitudes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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
