dissimilitude

Example Sentences

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

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

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

It was a singular anomaly of likeness coexisting with perfect dissimilitude.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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