similitude

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SIMIL'ITUDE, noun [Latin similitudo.] 1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our similitude Fate some future bard shall join in sad similitude of griefs to mine. 2. Comparison; simile. Tasso, in his similitude never departed from the woods. [See Simile.]
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