dissimilitude

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That dissimilitude of appearance, which was supposed to keep them distinct from the rest of the nation, might disincline them from coalescing with the Pensylvanians, or people of Connecticut. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Here too we have games, but with a dissimilitude in similitude.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

In another way by dissimilitude; as power is appropriated to the Father, as Augustine says, because fathers by reason of old age are sometimes feeble; lest anything of the kind be imagined of God.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint