dissimilitude

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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

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

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

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

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