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Likening
LI'KENING
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Definition 2024
likening
likening
English
Verb
likening
- present participle of liken
Noun
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 […]
- 1841, The Ladies' Repository (volume 1, page 289)