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  • verb Present participle of dissimilate.

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Examples

  • For whereas divine creations are in a perfect cycle or number, the human creation is in a number which declines from perfection, and has four terms and three intervals of numbers, increasing, waning, assimilating, dissimilating, and yet perfectly commensurate with each other.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Or are the ‘perfides albionnes’ dissimilating their true ‘instincts’, as demonstrating their possessiveness how many s’s?

    in the company of men 2006

  • a number which declines from perfection, and has four terms and three intervals of numbers, increasing, waning, assimilating, dissimilating, and yet perfectly commensurate with each other.

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

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