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1598. Florio, Dissimile,… vnlike, vnresembling.
1655. Earl Orrery, Parthen., I. VIII. 383. He had once seene some features not vnresembling his.
1683. Dryden, Ded. to Plutarch’s Lives, 26. Malice will make a picture more unresembling than ignorance.
1702. S. Parker, trans. Cicero’s De Finibus, IV. 262. Some of your Unresembling Similitudes!
1799. Lamb, Lett. to Southey, 2 March. Following, at unresembling distance, Sterne, and greater Cervantes.
Hence Unresemblingly adv.
1662. Ormonde, in Carte, Life (1735), III. 23. I have the honour, how unworthily and how unresemblingly soever, to represent the Majesty of my Great Master.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., I. i. 162. Not unresemblingly deals God with us.
