dissimilitude

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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

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 uncertainty of our duration is impressed commonly by dissimilitude of condition; it is only by finding life changeable that we are reminded of its shortness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel

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

And, indeed, we find concurring in all the above-mentioned observances, Christian societies of many different nations and languages, removed from one another by a great distance of place and dissimilitude of situation.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William