unresemble

unresemble

English

Etymology

un- +‎ resemble

Verb

unresemble (third-person singular simple present unresembles, present participle unresembling, simple past and past participle unresembled)

1. (transitive, rare) Not to resemble; to look or seem unlike.
   • 1688, John Dryden, The Life of Saint Francis Xavier

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

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

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

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

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