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

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

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 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

Solitary resemblances of sounds are as little proof of communication between nations as the dissimilitude of a few roots furnishes evidence against the affiliation of the German from the Persian and the Greek.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von