assimilitude

Noun

assimilitude (countable and uncountable, plural assimilitudes)

1. (rare) Synonym of assimilation.
   • 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...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
   • 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...

   Synonyms:

   assimilation

2. (rare) Synonym 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...
   • “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...1839, [Catherine Gore], chapter VI, in The Cabinet Minister. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 122

   Synonyms:

   similitude