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noun

Similitude n.

The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. "Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude." "If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine."

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."

That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. "Man should wed his similitude."

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"Similitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... language depends. Among the chief of these causes is to be reckoned a principle which must be well known to those who have made any of the Arts the object of accurate reflection; namely, the pleasure which the mind derives from the perception of similitude in dissimilitude. This principle is the great spring of the activity of our minds, and their chief feeder. From this principle the direction of the sexual appetite, and all the passions connected with it, take their origin: it is the life of our ordinary conversation; ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... also, like Lady Kenmure, Lady Boyd, and Marion M'Naught, a woman of remarkable powers of mind. For one thing, she had a fascinating gift of conversation, and, like John Bunyan, it was her habit to speak of spiritual things with wonderful power under the similitude and parable of outward and worldly things. At the time of the famous 'Stewarton sickness' Lady Robertland was of immense service, both to the ministers and to the people. Robert Fleming tells us that the profane rabble of that time gave the nickname ...

— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte

... the combat of truth and error were ever one and the same; the principles of the Roman Church now were those of the Church then; the principles of heretics then were those of Protestants now; there was an awful similitude. Be my soul with the saints! In the same month the words of St. Augustine were pointed out to me, "Securus judicat orbis terrarum"; they struck me with a power which I had never felt from any words before; the theory of the "Via Media" was ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... interior of France, furnish you with the means of giving to foreign peoples just ideas upon the real state of the Republic and upon the prosperity which is assured to it." The men of science who had promoted the voyage were anxious that not even a similitude of irregularity should be permitted. Thus we find the Comte de Fleurieu, who drew up the itinerary, writing to the Minister urging him to include in the instructions a paragraph prohibiting the ships from taking on ...

— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott

... suggest that the comparison of our life on earth to the endeavours of the runners in the games of the amphitheatre implies that those efforts are made under the gaze of a cloud of spectators. The existence of the spectators, and their interest in the contests, are integral facts in the similitude, ...

— The Life of the Waiting Soul - in the Intermediate State • R. E. Sanderson

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