SIMIL'ITUDE, noun [Latin similitudo.]
1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; assimilitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in oursimilitude 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.]
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Numbers 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
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