difformity

English

Etymology

From Middle French difformité. See difform, deformity.

Noun

difformity (plural difformities)

  1. (obsolete) irregularity or diversity of form; lack of uniformity
    Synonym: ununiformity
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      For whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures, but unwishing their unalterable verities, do tacitly desire in them a difformity from the primitive rule

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