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Similitude
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- 1 Similarity or resemblance to something else. uncountable
"So am I tossed on the ebbing tide of life—now in sunshine, now in shade—seemingly free, yet, in reality, fettered by the strong, though slight chain of circumstance. For a small sum, any passenger may enter that boat and direct its course; and here again is similitude. I am at the beck of others."
- 2 a duplicate copy wordnet
- 3 A way in which two people or things share similitude. countable
"Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon."
- 4 similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things wordnet
- 5 Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin. countable
"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."
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- 6 A parable or allegory. countable, uncountable
"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 [...]."
- 7 A similarity: a transformation of Euclidean space that preserves angles and the ratios of distances. countable
Etymology
From Old French similitude. By surface analysis, similar + -itude.
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