dissimilitude

Example Sentences

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

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

This kind of appropriation is made both by reason of similitude as regards what exists in the divine persons, and by reason of dissimilitude if we consider what is in creatures.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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

Solitary resemblances of sounds are as little proof of communication between nations as the dissimilitude of a few roots furnishes evidence against the affiliation of the German from the Persian and the Greek.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

A strange dissimilitude of which the reader has the key.

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