Lexicographical Neighbors of Similitudes
Literary usage of Similitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1890)
"EMOTIONAL similitudes.* 9. In compositions addressed to the Feelings,— Poetry
and Oratory,—similitudes are employed to heighten the emotional effect. ..."
2. The Messiah of the Gospels by Charles Augustus Briggs (1894)
"THE SON OF MAN OF THE similitudes OF ENOCH. § 6. The similitudes of the Book of
Enoch present the Messiah as the Elect, the Son of Man, full of grace as a ..."
3. Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose by Vicesimus Knox (1824)
"similitudes ought to be drawn from the most familiar and best known particulars
in the world: if any thing is dark and obscure in them, the purpose of using ..."
4. A Commentary on the Book of Psalms, in which Their Literal in Historical by George Horne (1833)
"The destruction of the wicked is represented under six similitudes. The first is
that of breaking the teeth of lions, being the most terrible weapons of the ..."
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