Similitude

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“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 [...].”

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