Antioch (341), adding explanations against the "unlikeness" of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Nor is this unlikeness without its rule and order. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
We notice them together for their unlikeness to each other. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
She saw more fully now his unlikeness to the Hyborian races. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
The unlikeness of the unlike is everywhere its indispensable foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Our unlikeness to other nurses is a lonely, very person conditioned state. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
All thought involves comparison, that is to say, a recognition of likeness or unlikeness. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
He could account for his isolation, his unlikeness to everything that existed around him. From Wordnik.com. [Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality] Reference
At bottom of it all for him was the sense of her rare unlikeness to the women he had known. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
The girl who shyly addressed him brought back the dancer, hurtfully, by her very unlikeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
A contrast of any page of an epic with one of a romance will show their essential unlikeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
She felt his unlikeness to another man, when she saw that he had no thought of any eyes that might be upon himself. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
Asymmetry: a state of unlikeness in lateral development; absence of symmetry in form or in the development of members. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
To Darrell she seemed more child than woman, and he was constantly impressed with her unlikeness to her father or aunt. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
Among men, however, dissimilarity of minds is a more potent factor in causing prejudice than unlikeness of physiognomy. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Then the common whim of the observer drew me to compare her with her brother, and to note their likeness and unlikeness. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman of Thirty] Reference
Being aloof from others, such a mind is unlike others; and it feels, and sometimes it feels bitterly, its own unlikeness. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
There are probably others, including likeness and unlikeness, and oneness and multitude (cf. Parmenides 129d-3 and 130b-e). From Wordnik.com. [Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman] Reference
The unlikeness of mental and physical phenomena is so absolute that we must hesitate about drawing any connection between them. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference
We live in what St Augustine called a 'land of unlikeness' where we are distant from our true selves, which are in God's image. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas message to the Heads of Churches] Reference
But it is from their likeness and their unlikeness to the same thing that they are thought both to be and not to be friendships. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicomachean Ethics] Reference
There is more unlikeness in Raphael's Madonnas than in the figures of any modern artist, whatever their variety of name and action. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
For in our case that glory is obscured by our unlikeness to our kindred, while the empire is bent upon fleeing from us as unworthy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference
True to his promise, Stefan had not made it a portrait, but its unlikeness lay rather in the meaning and expression than in the features. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Genseric, build houses which amaze the traveler by their utter unlikeness to Moorish edifices and their resemblance to European structures. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
At once we are made to see likeness or unlikeness, we hear no comment on it; since the artist desires no more moral than is to be looked for in his art. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
At one side of the garden -- and this, in spite of that curious unlikeness, was the only distinctly unlike thing about it -- was a gate of twisted iron. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
There is nothing in the unlikeness of the unlike that is necessarily problematical; it may be simply accepted and dealt with as a fact, like any other fact. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Zeke, still suspicious because of the unlikeness of this liquid to the crystal-clear element of the mountains, essayed an experimental swallow, then spat disgustedly. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
He loved Rosanne for her wit, her beauty, her courage, a certain sportsmanlike daring which showed in all her actions, and her unlikeness to any other woman he had ever known. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
A +Metonymy+ is a figure of speech in which the name of one thing connected to another by a relation other than likeness or unlikeness is brought over and applied to that other. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Friendships formed solely from early associations cannot last; for differences of character grow out of a diversity of pursuits, and unlikeness of character dissolves friendships. From Wordnik.com. [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference
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