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 boxes were as like to one another as peas, but Wogan discovered a great dissimilitude of defects.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

And in this working by resemblance in a kinde of dissimilitude betweene a father and a master.

From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George

One was done while I was very unwell; the other in my health, which may account for their dissimilitude.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

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