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单词 a distinction without a difference
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a distinction without a difference
b. a distinction without a difference: i.e. one artificially or fictitiously made in a case where no real difference exists.
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a distinction without a difference1579
subdistinction1598
class distinction1843
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 207 The distinction remaineth without a difference.
1688 Vox Cleri Pro Rege 47 It seems his Power is absolute, but not arbitrary, which is..a distinction without a difference.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lx. 277 Your correspondent..seems to make a distinction without a difference.
1891 Speaker 2 May 532/2 The jugglery of words was never more successful than in this distinction without a difference.
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