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Definition of Likening
1. Noun. The act of comparing similarities.
Definition of Likening
1. Verb. (present participle of liken) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Likening
1. liken [v] - See also: liken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Likening
Literary usage of Likening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"... likening his Love to a Search for Gold. I AM all bent to glean the golden ore
Little by little from the river-bed; When Croesus shall be conquered in my ..."
2. The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200 by Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Chiswick Press (1861)
"... likening his Love to a search for Gold. I AM all bent to glean the golden ore
Little by little from the river-bed; Hoping the day to see When Croesus ..."
3. The Physiology of Common Life by George Henry Lewes (1859)
"Structure of the Nervous System—Are nerves conductors only, and what do they
conduct?—Error of likening nerves to the conducting-wires of a ..."
4. Pencraft: A Plea for the Older Ways by William Watson (1916)
"... privately, of likening his verse to that of the late Francis Thompson (with
obvious injustice to the latter) and whose diction was a very riot and orgy ..."
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