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

The uncertainty of our duration is impressed commonly by dissimilitude of condition; it is only by finding life changeable that we are reminded of its shortness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

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