likening
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likening
- present participle and gerund of liken
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likening (plural likenings)
- The act by which things are likened; a comparison.
- 1841, The Ladies' Repository, volume 1, page 289:
- 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 […]