About The Word Similitude
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Similitude
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What's The Definition Of Similitude?
[n] a duplicate copy
[n] similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness" Synonyms | Synonyms for Similitude: alikeness | counterpart | likeness | twin Related Terms | Find terms related to Similitude: See Also | comparability | compare | comparison | duplicate | duplication | equivalence | mirror image | reflection | reflexion | resemblance | similarity | spitting image Similitude In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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