dissimilitude

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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

Empedocles says, that the similitude of children to their parents proceeds from the vigorous prevalency of the generating sperm; the dissimilitude from the evaporation of the natural heat it contains.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

In another way by dissimilitude; as power is appropriated to the Father, as Augustine says, because fathers by reason of old age are sometimes feeble; lest anything of the kind be imagined of God.

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

Did one spirit harmonize them, in spite of the dissimilitude of manners between the North and the South, which were now for the first time brought into political relations?

From A Book of Autographs by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The mountaineers then become a distinct nation, cut off by dissimilitude of speech from conversation with their neighbours. 

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