assimilitude

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 recurrent.

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.

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.

“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.[…]”