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likening en · NOUN
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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[…]
1841, The Ladies' Repository, volume 1, page 289:
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likening en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of liken