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It was, finally, to differ from the American federal commonwealth in the great feature that it was to be merely a confederacy of sovereignties, not a representative Republic.

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  1. intransitive verb To be dissimilar or unlike in nature, quality, amount, or form: Ambition differs from greed.
  2. intransitive verb To be of a different opinion; disagree: The critic differed with the author on several facts.
  3. intransitive verb Obsolete To quarrel; dispute.
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  • The category and severity differ, but one thing that does not differ is your right to pursue compensation for lost wages, medical bills, and pain and suffering. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • The Vietnamese imperial palaces differ from the Korean ones the same way that the Vietnamese temple architecture does. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • FRANK: Well, no, I differ -- differ with you on that. —  The Reaction
  • In all these characteristics they differ from the North American Indian generally as he appears in history They are capable of hard work, though apparently not of continuous hard work; they will cheerfully support great privation and fatigue; but when the immediate necessity is past they enjoy long periods of feasting and leisure. —  Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
  • We have not spoken in this book of Jugoslavia but of Yugoslavia, since that has come to be the more familiar form The full list of Croat letters, in so far as they differ from the English alphabet, is as follows c, whose English value is ts tch ch, as in church sh s, as in measure d j, as in James. —  The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
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  1. Middle English differren, from Old French differer, from Latin differre, to differ, delay : dis-, apart; see dis- + ferre, to carry; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English differen = French différer = Spanish diferir = Portuguese differir = Italian differire, from Latin differre, carry apart, put off, defer (intransitive differ, be different), from dis-, apart, + ferre = English bear; cf. Greek διαφέρειν, carry apart, differ (later διάφορος, different, later ult. English adiaphorous, etc., diaphorite), from διά, through, apart, + φέρειν = Latin ferre = English bear. Cf. defer, a doublet of differ.
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