unreˈsembling, ppl. a.
(un-1 10, 5 d.)
| 1598 Florio, Dissimile,..vnlike, vnresembling. 1655 Earl of 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 un⁓resembling than ignorance. 1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus iv. 262 Some of your Unresembling Similitudes! 1799 Lamb Let. to Southey 2 March, Following, at unresembling distance, Sterne, and greater Cervantes. |
Hence unreˈsemblingly 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. |