dissimilitude
Example Sentences
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It was inevitable that he should exercise this freedom, since, as Johnson has pointed out, there will always be an irreconcilable dissimilitude between Roman images and English manners.
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
A strange dissimilitude of which the reader has the key.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
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 Samuel Johnson
In the countenances of the three castaways thus introduced, I have admitted a dissimilitude something more than casual; something more, even, than what might be termed provincial.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
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 William Paley
