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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See dissimule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Rhet.) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

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  • noun rhetoric comparison or illustration by contraries

Etymologies

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Latin dissimile, neuter dissimilis unlike.

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