What does "similitude" mean?

Similitude: The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile. Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country. Dryden.

Additional senses

  1. 2.That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. Man should wed his similitude. Chaucer.

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