dissimilitude

Example Sentences

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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

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 Reid, Mayne

Notwithstanding this difference of disposition, the two officers are fast friends; a fact perhaps due to the dissimilitude of their natures.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne

And in this working by resemblance in a kinde of dissimilitude betweene a father and a master.

From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George

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