Sentence example with the word 'similitudes'

similitudes

Last update: September 15, 2015


0

The eschatology is similar to that taught in the similitudes of the Book cf Enoch.   [Please select]

0

This will be more clearly apprehended by considering, that as a simile is a more extended metaphor, so an allegory is a kind of continued simile, or an assemblage of similitudes drawn out at full length.   [Please select]

0

“I am aware that you are very much younger, but the similitudes of opinions, origins and perhaps at bottom, faintly, of character, of chivalrous devotion—no, you must be able to understand him in a measure.   [Please select]

0

The greatest of all ideals may, or rather must be conceived by us under similitudes derived from human qualities; although sometimes, like the Jewish prophets, we may dash away these figures of speech and describe the nature of God only in negatives.   [Please select]

0

There were lion shapes and bull shapes like the rudely chiselled gods of some heathen worship; there were slender, points and obelisks three hundred feet high; and something suggesting a cat-faced deity, and queer similitudes of crocodiles and apes,--all in the strange orange and red and pale yellow formations of the region.   [Please select]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
similitude - similitudes - simitar