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

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

It was a singular anomaly of likeness coexisting with perfect dissimilitude.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

There are also several external causes of cold, the first of which is dissimilitude of minds and manner, n.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

We cannot perhaps give a better notion of their dissimilitude, than by saying that one school produced Chaucer, and the other Petrarch.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry