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DIFFERENCE, ACCIDENTAL
Diversity among things only is some unessential property; also diversity in the mere degree or amount of some perfection, without any difference in species, as the differences among various races or nationalities.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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