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similitude |
2 definitions found 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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