unresemble

present singular third person unresembles · participle present unresembling · participle past unresembled · past unresembled

1. raretransitiveNot to resemble; to look or seem unlike.

   Now, Mr. Cox, you must know, that half barrels seen at a distance, do not entirely unresemble cannons.

   1812, The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography. Feb.-Nov. 1808, Jan. 1809

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   Behold a draught, not unresembling the face of Christianity in this new world, when Father Xavier arrived in it.

   1688, John Dryden, The Life of Saint Francis Xavier

   […] and this openness of communication, unresembling the nature of the intercourse which had lately existed between us, relieved in some degree my burthened heart, […]

   1816, William Godwin, St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century, volume 2, page 78