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Definition of Dissimilitude

1. Noun. Dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness.

Definition of Dissimilitude

1. n. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Definition of Dissimilitude

1. Noun. The quality of being diverse or different; difference or variety. ¹

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Definition of Dissimilitude

1. [n -S]

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Literary usage of Dissimilitude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"RESEMBLANCE AND dissimilitude. 248. HAVING discussed those qualities and circumstances of single objects that seem peculiarly connected with criticism, ..."

2. Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign by Henry Home Kames, Mills, Abraham (1847)
"RESEMBLANCE AND dissimilitude. The pleasure of discovering dissimilitude where resemblance prevails, and resem- blance where dissimilitude prevails—A ..."

3. Civilized America by Thomas Colley Grattan (1859)
"... Visitors—Boston—General Resemblance to England—Points of dissimilitude—Characteristics of American Cities—Style of Living—Cookery—Hotels—The " Boarding ..."

4. An Abridgment of Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames, John Frost (1831)
"Resemblance and dissimilitude. NATURE has given us a vigorous ... That resemblance and dissimilitude have an enlivening effect upon objects of sight, ..."

5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, Philip Schaff, John Chrysostom (1888)
"SIMILITUDE and dissimilitude, how so related as to include falsity, 550. 551, 552. 553. 556. 557- Stoics, 540. TRUTH, discussion and illustration of; ..."

6. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Nothing can more strikingly illustrate the dissimilitude of the French and English constitutions of government than the sentence above cited from the code ..."

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