dissimilitude

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This kind of appropriation is made both by reason of similitude as regards what exists in the divine persons, and by reason of dissimilitude if we consider what is in creatures.

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

X. There are also several external causes of cold; the first of which is dissimilitude of minds and manners.

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

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

On this voluntary recollection of ideas our faculty of reason depends, as it enables us to acquire an idea of the dissimilitude of any two ideas.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

That cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, was proved in the foregoing chapter.

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