Similitude

With both her hands on his arm, she shored it back and tried to draw it forward sharply in similitude of a punch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Honestly, a lot of my more outrageous language is in similitude of much of the liberal posts made here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The similitude is explained in the following words, It is a people of no understanding, brutish and sottish, and destitute of the knowledge of God, and that have no relish or savour of divine things, like a withered branch that has no sap in it; and this is at the bottom of all those sins for which God left them desolate, their idolatry first and afterwards their infidelity. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The similitude is very elegant (ver. 1-5), but, II. ❋ Unknown (1721)

This branch of the similitude is only mentioned, and not prosecuted here. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The explanation of the similitude is very dreadful, ver. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Or it may be taken figuratively, for his laying the country waste, and this very similitude is used in the history of it. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The similitude is taken from some common custom among the Jewish children at their play, who, as is usual with children, imitated the fashions of grown people at their marriages and funerals, rejoicing and lamenting; but being all a jest, it made no impression; no more did the ministry either of John the Baptist or of Christ upon that generation. ❋ Unknown (1721)

a blasphemous meaning, yet they sheltered themselves under the similitude from the imputation of downright blasphemy. ❋ Unknown (1721)

This doom reached beyond the law of similitude, which is a not-too-important law of physics. ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)

Allah disdaineth not to coin the similitude even of a gnat. ❋ Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1902)

The similitude is a similitude of proper nature and equality. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Now this is compared to the building of a slight rotten wall, or, according to our Saviour's similitude, which is to the same purport with this (Matt.vii. 26), the building of a house upon the sand, which seems to be a shelter and protection for a while, but will fall when a storm comes. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The duty taught us by this similitude, which is to bring forth fruit, and, in order to this, to abide in Christ. ❋ Unknown (1721)

There is, I confess, some kind of similitude between this union and that of the different natures in the person of Christ; but it is not of the same kind or nature. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

_ By a kind of similitude, however, He is represented as saying (Ps. 21: 26): ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

In speaking of arguments I mentioned a kind of similitude which, as an ornament to a discourse, contributes to make it sublime, florid, pleasing, and admirable. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

But this kind of similitude is often abused by the too great liberties our declaimers give themselves; for they use such as are false, and they do not make a just application of them to the subjects to which they would compare them. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

Similitudes, as I have said, are not for tragedy, which is all violent, and where the passions are in a perpetual ferment; for there they deaden where they should animate; they are not of the nature of dialogue, unless in comedy: a metaphor is almost all the stage can suffer, which is a kind of similitude comprehended in a word. ❋ Vergil (1909)

These similitude [dudes] need to [learn] to [read] ❋ JusticeForSim (2021)