dissimilen.
/dɪˈsɪmɪliː/ The opposite of ‘simile’; a comparison setting forth the dissimilarity of things; a comparison or illustration by contrast: see dissimilitude n. 2.
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1682 O. Walker Some Instr. Art Oratory (ed. 2) vi. 63 (margin) Dissimiles and Contraries.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dissimilitude, or, a Dissimili, in Rhetoric, &c. an Argument, wherein, from dissimilar, or unlike Things, other dissimilars are deduced.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 179 No more to be compared to the last..than I to Hercules, a meeting house to a church, Westminster to Eton, or any other equally appropriate dissimile.
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