Noah Webster
Similitude
SIMIL'ITUDE, noun [Latin similitudo.]
1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our similitude Fate some future bard shall join in sad similitude of griefs to mine.
2. Comparison; simile. Tasso, in his similitude never departed from the woods. [See Simile.]