dissimilitude

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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

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 greatest part of physicians affirm, that this happens casually and fortuitously; for, when the sperm of the man and woman is too much refrigerated, then children carry a dissimilitude to their parents.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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

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