similitude
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French
Pronunciation
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Noun
similitude (countable and uncountable, plural similitudes)
- (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
- Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
- (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
- Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
- (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
- Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
- 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.
- Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
- A parable or allegory.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
- 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 [...].
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
Derived terms
Translations
similarity or resemblance to something else
someone or something that closely resembles another
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French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin similitūdinem, accusative singular of similitūdō (“likeness, similitude”); from similis.
Noun
similitude f (plural similitudes)
Further reading
- “similitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.