Sentence example with the word 'likening'

likening

Definition n. the act of comparing similarities

Last update: September 21, 2015


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I'm rather fond of plum-cake," observed Tom, likening himself to Hercules with the distaff, and finding his employment pleasant, if not classical."'   [Please select]

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(44) Simile is the likening of anything to another object of a different class; it is a poetical or imaginative comparison.   [Please select]

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For it is a likening to the divine to be just and holy and true.   [Please select]

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Some of these sayings rise to a height of moral beauty surpassed only by the precepts of the great Teacher, whom many are too fond of likening to Buddha himself.   [Please select]

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He, sat and talked of many things: of the great war that was agonizing the nation; of the strong man who, harassed and suffering himself, was striving to guide it, likening Lincoln unto a physician.   [Please select]

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