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similitude

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The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.

The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.

That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.

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Remember, similitude need not imply exactitude. Robert Sheckley

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage. Andrzej Wajda

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present. William Tyndale

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit. George Ripley

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own. Samuel Johnson

man created God in his own likeness Source: Internet

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