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 a singular anomaly of likeness coexisting with perfect dissimilitude.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

But what to me formed the most bewitching part of the prospect was the elegance of the trees and their perfect dissimilitude to any which had previously beheld.

From The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)

Cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all of which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, 275.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel