unresemblingadj.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Dissimile,..vnlike, vnresembling.

1660 J. Herdon Idea of Law from Moses to King Charles 25 You fall by degrees upon unresembling Cases, and the Subtilty of wit will be of more force than the Authority of Law.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. I. xxxviii. 426 Both are dangerous, either to resemble them because they are many, or to hate many, because they are unresembling [1877 (ed. W. C. Hazlitt) unresembling to ourselves].

1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus iv. 262 Some of your Unresembling Similitudes!

1799 C. Lamb Let. 20 Mar. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 165 Following at unresembling distance Sterne and greater Cervantes.

1835 J. Haslam On Nature of Thought 26 These are the materials out of which scholastic metaphysicians have fashioned their unresembling model, and deserted Nature.

1906 D. Gerard Compromise ii. xv. 236 He was..wondering what it was that created a point of resemblance between all these so very unresembling celibates.

1984 London Mag. Dec. 134/2 My own sympathies..would be with Bridges, rather too many modern portraits—unresembling daubs—being leniently accepted in the name of art.

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. i. viii. 383 He had once seene some features not vnresembling his.

1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds xxi. 118 The Cranium..is framed of two Bones, thin, but hard, the one inward, the other outward, not much unresembling a Pumice-stone.

1715 B. Griffin & L. Theobald Compl. Key to New Farce 14 If our Authors could be thought to shoot so low as the Earl of Essex, there is a Passage not unresembling this in his Speech upon his Fall.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon II. iii. 78 This openness of communication, unresembling the nature of the intercourse which had lately existed between us, relieved in some degree my burthened heart.

1846 E. Robinson Cæsar Borgia II. xi. 222 ‘Now let the thunder descend or—’ The raving exclamation was cut short by a sound not altogether unresembling that imprecated.

1914 J. H. Yoxall Villa for Coelebs i. 5 Potboys, totally unresembling Ganymede, will bear sour nectar upstairs.

2003 R. Sieburth tr. M. Scève Emblems of Desire 99 My mind..now races In your chords, so unresembling mine.

1662 J. B. Ormonde Speech to Parl. 5 I have the Honor, how unworthily, and how unresemblingly soever, to represent the Majestie of my Great Master.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. i. i. sig. M1^v Not unresemblingly deals God with us.

1986 G. R. Morrow & J. M. Dillon tr. Proclus Comm. Plato's Parmenides (1992) i. 38 All the material element..resembles (unresemblingly, as they say) the beings that are prior to generation and essence.