dissimilitude
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Cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all of which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, 275.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel
But what to me formed the most bewitching part of the prospect was the elegance of the trees and their perfect dissimilitude to any which had previously beheld.
From The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)
Empedocles says, that the similitude of children to their parents proceeds from the vigorous prevalency of the generating sperm; the dissimilitude from the evaporation of the natural heat it contains.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Thus equality and likeness in God have reference to the essence; nor can there be inequality or dissimilitude arising from the distinction of the relations.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
That kindred subsisted between them was possible, notwithstanding this dissimilitude; but this circumstance contributed to envenom my suspicions.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
