dissimilitude

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This dissimilitude," says Mr. Thornton, "which pervades the whole of their habits, is so general, even in things of apparent insignificance, as almost to indicate design rather than accident.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry

The dissimilitude of Sumatra and Java, separated by only a narrow channel, occurs to us, as well as that of Madagascar, but narrowly divided from the neighboring continent.

From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray

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

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

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

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