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

A strange dissimilitude of which the reader has the key.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne

This image bears no great dissimilitude to you.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

These though very virtuous, are so far one's own actions, and cause the will to subsist in a multiplicity, in a kind of separate distinction or dissimilitude from God.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

Notwithstanding this difference of disposition, the two officers are fast friends; a fact perhaps due to the dissimilitude of their natures.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne