dissimilitude

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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

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

And, indeed, we find concurring in all the above-mentioned observances, Christian societies of many different nations and languages, removed from one another by a great distance of place and dissimilitude of situation.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William

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

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