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dissimilitude|dɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd|
[ad. L. dissimilitūdo unlikeness, difference, dissimilarity, f. dissimilis unlike: see -tude.]
1. The condition or quality of being unlike; unlikeness, difference, dissimilarity; diversity.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 682/2 There is speciall dissimilitude betwene the sinagoge and y⊇ church. 1564Brief Exam. * * * iv, Dissimilitude of life and diuersitie of maners. 1697tr. Burgersdicius his Logic i. xxi. 84 Dissimilitude in a diversity either in quality or passion. 1764Reid Inquiry v. viii. Wks. I. 131/2 The colours are perfectly distinguishable, and their dissimilitude is manifest. 1876J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. II. i. iii. 50 It often happens that men of very dissimilar talents..are attracted together by their very dissimilitude.
b. with a and pl. An instance of dissimilarity.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. Pref. ii. §2 Whereupon grew marvellous great dissimilitudes. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 30, I knowe Nature delights and triumphs in dissimilitudes. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxviii, New impressions..might wear away their dissimilitudes by long cohabitation. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home, Leamington Spa (1879) 53 Such places..bloom only for the summer-season, and offer a thousand dissimilitudes even then.
†2. Rhet. A figure of speech in which a comparison is made by contrast. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 248 The Tuskan poet vseth this Resemblance, inuring as well by Dissimilitude as Similitude. 1628T. Spencer Logick 128 This that I haue sayd..is sufficient to shew the..vse of similitudes, and dissimilitudes. 1696Phillips, Dissimilitude, unlikeness, whence a Form of Speech is so called wherein divers things are compared in a diverse Quality. 1727–51[see dissimile]. |