Meaning

(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
2. (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
3. (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
4. A parable or allegory.
5. (countable, geometry) A similarity: a transformation of Euclidean space that preserves angles and the ratios of distances.

Example Sentences

Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

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.

But others declare that no Creature can be made or tranſmuted into a better or vvorſe, or transformed into another ſpecies or ſimilitude, by man, or devill. […] Martinus [i.e., Martin] Delrio the Jeſuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beaſt to be an illuſion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature; for, the ſoule of man cannot informe a beaſts body, […]

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.

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 [...].

Word Forms

• similitudes

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