similitude

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Similarity or resemblance to something else.

   • Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
2. 2

   A way in which two people or things share similitude.

   • Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
3. 3

   Someone or something that closely resembles another

   Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      A parable or allegory.

      • 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 [...].
   2. 5

      A similarity

      A similarity: a transformation of Euclidean space that preserves angles and the ratios of distances.

The neighborhood

• neighbordissimilitude