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likening

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of liken

  2. The act by which things are likened

    The act by which things are likened; a comparison.

    • I sometimes, in musing mood, find myself making spontaneous likenings of inanimate to animate nature, comparing the qualities of things to the qualities of men[…]

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No curated loop yet for likening. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA