Literary notes about similar (AI summary)
In literature, the term "similar" is frequently employed to show a likeness or correspondence between things, whether referring to physical quantities, behaviors, or abstract qualities. Authors use it to emphasize that one object, event, or idea bears a measurable or thematic resemblance to another, as when a certain amount of material is compared to a like amount ([1]) or when recurring social interactions are noted to have a comparable character ([2]). It also appears in discussions that span from ceremonies and customs ([3], [4]) to logical propositions and scientific observations ([5], [6]), highlighting similarities that, although arising in different contexts—from historical narratives ([7], [8]) to philosophical reasoning ([9], [10])—help forge connections across diverse domains. This flexible usage of "similar" enriches the narrative by drawing our attention to common patterns and shared characteristics in a subtle yet compelling manner ([11], [12]).
- promised the other gun and a similar quantity of powder and lead when we received the ballance of our horses.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - Similar but more friendly exchanges took place afterwards, usually at intervals of three or four weeks.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - In fact I have two similar ceremonies to perform at that time.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde - A similar ceremony in Freemasonry is called the Rite of Intrusting.
— from The symbolism of Freemasonry : by Albert Gallatin Mackey - Similarly we may represent the three similar Propositions “Some x′ exist”, “Some y exist”, and “Some y′ exist”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - Pg 5 He will also know that, since all circles are similar, the same answer will necessarily apply to any coin.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - but it is similar to that of the Northern tier of States from the Great Lakes West.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - A similar disposition is ascribed to the wise Nestor, in the fourth book of the Iliad; and Homer was never absent from the mind of Julian.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Sense and each of the passions suffers from a similar independence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Must we not admit that the Political Science plainly does not stand on a similar footing to that of other sciences and faculties?
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle - Since then every year upon the same date there has always appeared a similar box, containing a similar pearl, without any clue as to the sender.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - = “Some y are x ” 〃 ‘ Converse ’ Propositions, and ‘ Conversion ’ 〃 Three other similar Trios 32 The Proposition “No x are y ”
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
