dissimilitude

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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

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

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

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

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

That kindred subsisted between them was possible, notwithstanding this dissimilitude; but this circumstance contributed to envenom my suspicions.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden