Crossword clues for likening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liken \Lik"en\ (l[imac]k"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Likened (l[imac]k"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Likening.] [OE. liknen. See Like, a.]
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To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock.
--Matt. vii. 24. To make or cause to be like. [R.]
--Brougham.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which things are likened; a comparison. vb. (present participle of liken English)
WordNet
n. the act of comparing similarities
Usage examples of "likening".
In this new campaign he's challenging the city's only elected black commissioner, and already Carollo has gone on Spanish-language radio likening his opponent to a common street looter.
Hammond and Griffin, likening one to Asclepius and the other to Hippocrates, while not failing to make any number of cautiously favorable remarks about every other Doctor who had come within a hundred yards of the King during the last month.
I have oft heard French and Germans alike speak disparagingly of the Netherlands, likening the country to a gutter that collects all the refuse and fœces of Christendom, but lacks the vigor to force it out to sea, so that it piles up in a bar around Rotterdam.
It wasn't muchoutdoor plumbing that worked half the time, no electricity, no conveniences, but the old timers maintain they were happy times, often likening the period to paradise.
I should have wished the State to expand still more, likening itself to the order of the universe, to the divine nature of things.
My likening myself to a chicken being served at the banquet had been more accurate than I'd dreamed.