dissimilitude

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An example is a rehearsall of a 89 thynge that is done, and an applyynge of it vnto our cause, eyther for similitude or dissimilitude, profitable to perswade, garnyshe, and delyght.

From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Hildebrandt, Herbert William

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

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

This image bears no great dissimilitude to you.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

Solitary resemblances of sounds are as little proof of communication between nations as the dissimilitude of a few roots furnishes evidence against the affiliation of the German from the Persian and the Greek.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

Here too we have games, but with a dissimilitude in similitude.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various