dissimilitude

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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

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 Dennis, John

One was done while I was very unwell; the other in my health, which may account for their dissimilitude.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

The greatest part of physicians affirm, that this happens casually and fortuitously; for, when the sperm of the man and woman is too much refrigerated, then children carry a dissimilitude to their parents.

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

The boxes were as like to one another as peas, but Wogan discovered a great dissimilitude of defects.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew