Definition of "similitude"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural similitudes
(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
Quotations
So am I tossed on the ebbing tide of life—now in sunshine, now in shade—seemingly free, yet, in reality, fettered by the strong, though slight chain of circumstance. For a small sum, any passenger may enter that boat and direct its course; and here again is similitude. I am at the beck of others.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 150
A parable or allegory.
Quotations
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 [...].
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Matthew ]