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Webster 1913 Edition
Similitude
1.
The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity;
as,
. similitude
of substanceChaucer.
Let us make now man in our image, man
In our
In our
similitude
. Milton.
If fate some future bard shall join
In sad
In sad
similitude
of griefs to mine. Pope.
2.
The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
Tasso, in his
similitudes
, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country. Dryden.
3.
That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
Man should wed his
similitude
. Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Similitude
SIMIL'ITUDE
,Noun.
1.
Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our similitude. Fate some future bard shall join in sad similitude of griefs to mine.2.
Comparison; simile. Tasso, in his similitude, never departed from the woods. [See Simile.]Definition 2024
similitude
similitude
English
Noun
similitude (countable and uncountable, plural similitudes)
- (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
- Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
- If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude, in the garden.
- Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
- A parable or allegory.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
- And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes, sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
Translations
someone or something that closely resembles another
French
Etymology
From Latin similitūdinem, accusative singular of similitūdō (“likeness, similitude”); from similis.
Noun
similitude f (plural similitudes)