assimilitude

plural assimilitudes

1. countablerareuncountableSynonym of assimilation.

   But difficult as it may be to tear away from the soil and the property handed down to them by their parents they are doing it with ease and an assimilitude that probably surprises them as much or as little as it does anyone else.

   1929 May 28, “All Eastview Residents Must Relinquish Their Homes This Weekend; Departure Planned […]”, in The Daily Times and The Mamaroneck Paragraph, volume IV, number 202, Mamaroneck, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 4

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   Negroes are less than 10 per cent of the population. If they were distributed throughout the country instead of being massed as now in special localities, their moral assimilitude with the whites would be easier and more rapid, and motives of hostility and violence would be far less numerous and recurrent.

   1921 August 3–4, “1921: Census Results”, in International Herald Tribune, number 35,280 (3–4 August 1996), Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC, “In Our Pages: 100, 75 and 50 Years Ago” section, page 6, column 7

   Unlike so many of that influxive group of compatriotic immigrants, he refused family aid and asylum and found occupation with a New England tailor in Norwalk, Connecticut, where, in the determination of unhyphenated assimilitude, he mastered the language within the twelvemonth.

   1958, Grace M. Mayer, “The pride of the American belief”, in Once upon a City: New York from 1890 to 1910 […], New York, N.Y.: Octagon Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 209

   Synonyms: assimilation

2. countablerareuncountableSynonym of similitude.

   If I mistake not, the same jocular writer [John Wolcot] has stated, as a fact, that a man of rank, much spoken of as an able and arch-naturalist, boiled a flea, in order to ascertain, upon scientific principles, its assimilitude to the sanguinary colour of the lobster.

   [1818], [Thomas Christopher Banks], “To the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, […]”, in A Memoir of a Great Man, with a Little Mind: […], London: […] [F]or the Author by H[enry] K[ent] Causton, […], →OCLC, page 4

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   “Because, between them there is not the slightest sympathy of character!” / “Pho, pho! There may be no similarity or assimilitude of character; but there might be sympathy between the Admirable Crichton and King Cophetua’s beggar maid, or between the sage Maria Theresa and the blockhead Francis of Lorraine. I tell you, Miss Grenfell is in love with Woodbridge, and Woodbridge getting into love with her as quick as possible.[…]”

   1839, [Catherine Gore], chapter VI, in The Cabinet Minister. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 122

   Again, he says (page 203): “I suppose no intelligent eye can look on Raffaelle’s Lo Spasimo, Da Vinci’s Last Supper, or I might even say Michael Angelo’s Raising of Lazarus, painted by Del Piombo, without recognising more or less the Greek conception.” The Rev. E[dward] Young may here be right, but I confess I fail to see the assimilitude of either Lo Spasimo, the Last Supper, or the Raising of Lazarus, to The Greek; in the severity of outline and modelling alone in Da Vinci’s great work there is that which is not alien certainly, but both Lo Spasimo and the Raising of Lazarus seem to me, alike in treatment as in subject, especially foreign to the artistic mind of the great nation of antiquity.

   1882, William Sharp, “The Preraphaelite Idea—The Germ.”, in Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study, London: Macmillan and Co., pages 45–46

   Synonyms: similitude