dissimilitude

Example Sentences

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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

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 mountaineers then become a distinct nation, cut off by dissimilitude of speech from conversation with their neighbours. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

An example is a rehearsall of a 89 thynge that is done, and an applyynge of it vnto our cause, eyther for similitude or dissimilitude, profitable to perswade, garnyshe, and delyght.

From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Hildebrandt, Herbert William

This image bears no great dissimilitude to you.

From The Works of Horace by Horace