| 释义 |
likening, vbl. n.|ˈlaɪk(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. liken v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of making like, or representing as like; assimilation, comparison.
c1440Promp. Parv. 305/1 Lyknynge, assimilacio. 1632Sherwood, A likening,..assimilation. 1832H. Martineau Ireland vi. 104 Protestant likenings of the pope and his flock to the devil and his crew. 1894Athenæum 30 June 835/1 [There is] an unconscious likening of all things to the flowers and hills she loves so well.
†2. A figure of speech; a comparison, simile. at (the) likening of: under the similitude of.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxiii. 1 Þe prophet at þe likynynge of a bedel..cries þat [etc.]. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 94 b, A likening is agayne annexed, as bloud. 1587Golding De Mornay xxvi. 398 What..are the similitudes of Cicero himselfe in his treatise of old age, but liknings taken from husbandry and Vines? |
