Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Similarity; resemblance.
- noun Archaic One that closely resembles another.
- noun Archaic A simile, allegory, or parable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Likeness in constitution, qualities, or appearance; similarity; resemblance.
- noun A comparison; a simile; a parable or allegory.
- noun That which bears likeness or resemblance; an image; a counterpart or facsimile.
- noun In geometry, the relation of similar figures to one another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity.
- noun The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
- noun That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
Similarity orresemblance to something else. - noun countable A way in which two people or things share similitude.
- noun countable Someone or something that closely
resembles another; aduplicate ortwin . - noun A
parable orallegory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things
- noun a duplicate copy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Honestly, a lot of my more outrageous language is in similitude of much of the liberal posts made here.
Think Progress » Netanyahu Adviser Ya’alon: ‘I Do Not Accept’ Any Withdrawal From Settlements 2010
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With both her hands on his arm, she shored it back and tried to draw it forward sharply in similitude of a punch.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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With both her hands on his arm, she shored it back and tried to draw it forward sharply in similitude of a punch.
Chapter 13 1913
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The similitude is explained in the following words, It is a people of no understanding, brutish and sottish, and destitute of the knowledge of God, and that have no relish or savour of divine things, like a withered branch that has no sap in it; and this is at the bottom of all those sins for which God left them desolate, their idolatry first and afterwards their infidelity.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The similitude is very elegant (ver. 1-5), but, II.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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This branch of the similitude is only mentioned, and not prosecuted here.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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The explanation of the similitude is very dreadful, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Or it may be taken figuratively, for his laying the country waste, and this very similitude is used in the history of it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The similitude is taken from some common custom among the Jewish children at their play, who, as is usual with children, imitated the fashions of grown people at their marriages and funerals, rejoicing and lamenting; but being all a jest, it made no impression; no more did the ministry either of John the Baptist or of Christ upon that generation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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a blasphemous meaning, yet they sheltered themselves under the similitude from the imputation of downright blasphemy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
brtom commented on the word similitude
Begotten Son, Divine Similitude
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
janejetson commented on the word similitude
The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
March 14, 2010
dailyword commented on the word similitude
There was also a "Star Trek: Enterprise" episode named this.
November 1, 2012