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  Rarely used without preceding negative.

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1763.  Tucker, Lt. of Nat. (1834), I. 274. It is not unsimilar to a declaration of St. Paul’s.

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1804.  Eugenia de Acton, Tale without Title, II. 161. This speech, which … was seriously made upon an occasion not unsimilar, raised a laugh.

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1863.  Mrs. Oliphant, Salem Chapel, ii. They … [were] much of an age, and not unsimilar in worldly means.

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