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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.
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Let us make now man in our image, man
In our similitude. --Milton.
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If fate some future bard shall join
In sad similitude of griefs to mine. --Pope.
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2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to
another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
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Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the
woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from
the country. --Dryden.
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3. That which is like or similar; a representation,
semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
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Man should wed his similitude. --Chaucer.
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