SIMIL'ITUDE, n. L. 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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