dissimilitude
Americannoun
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unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
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a point of difference; dissimilarity.
noun
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dissimilarity; difference
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a point of difference
Etymology
Origin of dissimilitude
1525–35; < Latin dissimilitūdō, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + similitūdō similitude
Example Sentences
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That cold arises from various causes, internal, external, and accidental, all which originate in a dissimilitude of internal inclinations, was proved in the foregoing chapter.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
It only appertains to those conversant with their relations of dissimilitude or conformity to appreciate the possibility of realizing this system.
From The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by C.-F. (Constantin-François) Volney
Thus equality and likeness in God have reference to the essence; nor can there be inequality or dissimilitude arising from the distinction of the relations.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Erasmus Darwin
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 William Paley
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