Definitions
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dissimule .
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- noun (Rhet.) Comparison or illustration by contraries.
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- noun rhetoric
comparison orillustration bycontraries
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Examples
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Note 95: Conches, Phil., p. 91: "et quia in calido et humido nutritus est nascens, et ad dissimile prodiens contrarietatem sentit, vocemque aemulationis emittit, et ideo prima vox hominis est vox doloris." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Haud dissimile ijs genus Pharnacum in Æthiopia prodidit Damon, quorum sudor tabem contactis corporibus afferat.
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Haud dissimile ijs genus Pharnacum in 苩hiopia prodidit Damon, quorum sudor tabem contactis corporibus afferat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Non enim dissimile est miraculum nescienti cur sanis corporibus his quidem dulcia illis uero amara conueniant, cur aegri etiam quidam lenibus quidam uero acribus adiuuentur?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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And so it inureth as a wish by way of resemblaunce in [Simile dissimile] which is also a subtillitie likening her Maiestie to the Sunne for his brightnesse, but not to him for his passion, which is ordinarily to go to glade, and sometime to suffer eclypse.
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Lexil.s. v. and Arnold.] [Footnote 155: Observe the force of the neuter.] [Footnote 156: "_Si unquam fuit, quod nunc non est ampleus_. i.e. _si recte dici potest fuisse, quod ita sui factum est dissimile, ut fuisse unquam vix credas_."
The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840
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'Si quod vere natura nobis dedit spectaculum in hac tellure vere gratum et philosopho dignum, id semel, mihi contigisse arbitror, cum ex celsissimâ rupe speculabundus ad oram maris mediterranei, hinc aequor caeruleum, illinc tractus Alpinos prospexi, nihil quidem magis dispar aut dissimile nec in suo genere magis egregium et singulare.' [
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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