dissimilitude

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There are also several external causes of cold, the first of which is dissimilitude of minds and manner, n.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

It was a singular anomaly of likeness coexisting with perfect dissimilitude.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

That dissimilitude of appearance, which was supposed to keep them distinct from the rest of the nation, might disincline them from coalescing with the Pensylvanians, or people of Connecticut. 

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

We cannot perhaps give a better notion of their dissimilitude, than by saying that one school produced Chaucer, and the other Petrarch.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

It only appertains to those conversant with their relations of dissimilitude or conformity to appreciate the possibility of realizing this system.

From The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François)