dissimilitude
Example Sentences
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On this voluntary recollection of ideas our faculty of reason depends, as it enables us to acquire an idea of the dissimilitude of any two ideas.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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
The boxes were as like to one another as peas, but Wogan discovered a great dissimilitude of defects.
From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew
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 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
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