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unˈlikeness
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†1. Strangeness. Obs.
c1230Hali Meid. 13, I þis world þat is icleopet lond of unlicnesse. a1380St. Augustin 224 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 65/2, I fond fro þe þat fer I was, As in a kyngdam of vnlikenes.
2. The quality of being unlike; want of likeness or resemblance; dissimilarity.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 227 For noo drede licknesse of breþeren causiþ love among hem, and unliknesse is cause of discord. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. xii. (1495) c j/1 No violence of tyrannye bendyth theym to oppresse..the nether angellis. Therefore Denys sayth that they vse theyr lordshypp wyth vnlyknesse of tyrannye. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 998/2 The causes that he laieth of dyssimilitude & vnlikenes, be twene the witnesses. 1548Udall Erasmus Par. Matt. v. 37 The unlikenes of manners declareth and argueth a bastarde. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 89 Mark..what they speak here, touching their likeness and unlikeness with the papists. 1645Milton Tetrach. 9 Where the different sexe in most resembling unlikenes, and most unlike resemblance cannot but please best. 1709Brit. Apollo II. Supernum. No. 1. 2/1 We meet with some Characters of Unlikeness in this Similitude. 1772Wesley Jrnl. 11 Feb. (1827) III. 440 For..unlikeness to all the world beside,..the writer is without a rival! 1846Trench Mirac. xxv. (1862) 359 There are..points of unlikeness in the two miracles. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxi, It was..strange in its utter unlikeness to any teaching..which he had ever heard before. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ix. 173 We know of no other way in which this likeness in unlikeness can be brought about.
b. With a and pl. An instance of dissimilarity or want of resemblance.
1662South Serm. (1679) 116 As great an unlikeness, as between St. Pauls a Cathedral, and St. Pauls a Stable. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 611 These two unlikenesses I mention together. 1718Freethinker No. 155 (1733) 240 Such Unlikenesses as, by their Subtility, escape the Observation of Judgments less acute. 1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) I. 33 They are the Beau and the Belle; and, if I may be understood in thus speaking, are a similar Unlikeness. 1828Southey Epist. to A. Cunningham 370, I recognise all these unlikenesses, Spurious abominations though they be. 1879Sir G. Campbell Black & White 22 The likenesses are much more numerous and much more prominent than the unlikenesses.
3. A bad or poor likeness.
1729T. Cooke Tales, &c. 127 His ample Shield..On which th' Unlikeness of the Greek appears. 1843Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 4 In the next number is an un-likeness of me,..in a morning-gown. |