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Similitude is a related term of portrait.


As nouns the difference between similitude and portrait

is that similitude is (uncountable) similarity or resemblance to something else while portrait is .

similitude

English

(wikipedia similitude)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
    '''Aemulation''' was '     similitude     within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
  • (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes'''''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
    '     Aemulation     was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
  • (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
  • * Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
    • If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude , in the garden.
  • A parable or allegory.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
    • And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes , sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].

    portrait

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pourtraict (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
  • * Sir J. Reynolds
    • In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
  • (figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
    • The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
  • (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

    • Related terms

    * portray

    Antonyms

    * (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profile

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To portray; to draw.
    • (Spenser)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
    • a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
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