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Disparates

Disparates \Dis"pa*rates\, n. pl. Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

Usage examples of "disparates".

Remembering the tin of boot-polish in his pocket, he allowed his heart to leap in awe at the poetry which existence itself sometimes contrived: the fusion, or at least meaningful collocation, of disparates -- as, for example, a tin of tan boot-polish and himself, Enderby.