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Dissimilitude   Listen
noun
Dissimilitude  n.  
1.
Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. "Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images."
2.
(Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.





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"Dissimilitude" Quotes from Famous Books



... saith,(574) that the reason why God forbade his people Israel the use of such rites and customs as were among the Egyptians and the Canaanites, was not because it behoved his people to be framed of set purpose to an utter dissimilitude with those nations, but his meaning was to bar Israel from similitude with those nations in such things as were repugnant to his ordinances and laws. Ans. 1. Let it be so, he has said enough against himself. For we have the same reason to make us abstain from all the rites ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie


Words linked to "Dissimilitude" :   unlikeness, dissimilarity, likeness, similitude, unsimilarity


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