dissimilitude
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In the countenances of the three castaways thus introduced, I have admitted a dissimilitude something more than casual; something more, even, than what might be termed provincial.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
These though very virtuous, are so far one's own actions, and cause the will to subsist in a multiplicity, in a kind of separate distinction or dissimilitude from God.
From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte
This kind of appropriation is made both by reason of similitude as regards what exists in the divine persons, and by reason of dissimilitude if we consider what is in creatures.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
The uncertainty of our duration is impressed commonly by dissimilitude of condition; it is only by finding life changeable that we are reminded of its shortness.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel
That cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, was proved in the foregoing chapter.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel
