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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Similitude \Si*mil"i*tude\, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo,
from similis similar. See {Similar}.]
1. The quality or state of being similar or like
resemblance; likeness; similarity; as similitude of
substance. --Chaucer.
Let us make now man in our image, man In our
similitude. --Milton.
If fate some future bard shall join 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
similitude
n 1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between
persons or things: "man created God in his own likeness"
[syn: {likeness}, {alikeness}] [ant: {unlikeness}, {unlikeness}]
2: a duplicate copy [syn: {counterpart}, {twin}]
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