Sample Sentences forsimilitude (auto-selected)
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The mother herself—as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form—had carefully wrought out the similitude, lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity to create an analogy between the object of her affection and the emblem of her guilt and torture.† (source)
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ALAM AL-MITHAL: the mystical world of similitudes where all physical limitations are removed.† (source)
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Thus, the sperm whale and the humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.† (source)
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I believe fully that I am growing to resemble the devil—that the similitude is almost completed.† (source)
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Having swallowed the butter, they played another game which chanced to be graceful: the fondling of Shri Krishna under the similitude of a child.† (source)
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A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention; and Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, murmured out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them.† (source)
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The Libyan Jew went by, and the Jew of Egypt, and the Jew from the Rhine; in short, Jews from all East countries and all West countries, and all islands within commercial connection; they went by on foot, on horseback, on camels, in litters and chariots, and with an infinite variety of costumes, yet with the same marvellous similitude of features which to-day particularizes the children of Israel, tried as they have been by climates and modes of life; they went by speaking all known tongues, for by that means only were they distinguishable group from group; they went by in haste—eager, anxious, crowding—all to behold one poor Nazarene die, a felon between felons.† (source)
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In my brain were stored a thousand pictures: Giotto's flock of angels from the blue vaulting of a little church in Padua, and near them walked Hamlet and the garlanded Ophelia, fair similitudes of all sadness and misunderstanding in the world, and there stood Gianozzo, the aeronaut, in his burning balloon and blew a blast on his horn, Attila carrying his new headgear in his hand, and the Borobudur reared its soaring sculpture in the air.† (source)
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But they that observe their differences, and dissimilitudes; which is called Distinguishing, and Discerning, and Judging between thing and thing; in case, such discerning be not easie, are said to have a Good Judgement: and particularly in matter of conversation and businesse; wherein, times, places, and persons are to be discerned, this Vertue is called DISCRETION.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in dissimilitudes reverses the meaning of similitudes. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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'Is it not, my dear madam, the faint similitude of—' 'It is my daughter's portrait,' said Mrs Nickleby, with great pride.† (source)
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He wondered it if might be possible that his ruh-spirit had slipped over somehow into the world where the Fremen believed he had his true existence — into the alam al-mithal, the world of similitudes, that metaphysical realm where all physical limitations were removed.† (source)
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But, strangely enough—(I thought of it only afterwards)—I believe that he was not a little disconcerted by the reverse side of that weird situation, by something in me that reminded him of the man he was seeking—suggested a mysterious similitude to the young fellow he had distrusted and disliked from the first.† (source)
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I assured him, "how extremely desirous I was that he should be satisfied on every point; but I doubted much, whether it would be possible for me to explain myself on several subjects, whereof his honour could have no conception; because I saw nothing in his country to which I could resemble them; that, however, I would do my best, and strive to express myself by similitudes, humbly desiring his assistance when I wanted proper words;" which he was pleased to promise me.† (source)
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Among the chief of these causes is to be reckoned a principle which must be well known to those who have made any of the Arts the object of accurate reflection; I mean the pleasure which the mind derives from the perception of similitude in dissimilitude.† (source)
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Such discourses as these had I with my man, and such made me sensible, that the true God is worshipped, tho' under imperfect similitudes;† (source)
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Let me complete my friend Lucifer's similitude of the classical concert.† (source)
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