assimilitudes

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

   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...

   Synonyms:

   similitude