Similitude — Defs

01 n. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.

1.
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.” — Milton.

“If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine.” — Pope.
2.
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.” — Dryden.
3.
That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
“Man should wed his similitude.” — Chaucer.