likeningn.

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪkn̩ɪŋ/,

/ˈlʌɪk(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪkənɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English lickynynge, Middle English likenyng, Middle English liknyng, Middle English likynyng, Middle English likynynge, Middle English lyknyng, Middle English lyknynge, 1500s lykening, 1500s lykenynge, 1500s– likening.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: liken v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < liken v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare liking n.²

†1. A likeness of a person or thing; a guise. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else

swilkc1175

anlike1340

liking1340

likeningc1350

semblancec1374

resemblancea1393

likenessa1400

semblablec1400

similitudinary?a1425

like1440

assemblable?1530

a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530

resembler1570

fellowa1616

remonstrance1640

simile1743

ditto1776

something of the sort1839

that or this sort of thing1848

assimilate1935

c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 19 (MED) Þe fend hym-self him maky mey Wel dyuerse liknynges.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) iv. 7 (MED) How myght than man be in mare wrechidnes than swa to foule this ymage that it kan noght knaw til whas lyknynge it is made?

a. The action of comparing one person or thing to another so as to suggest that they are similar or alike; (also) an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > representing as similar

comparison1340

likeningc1390

comparing1489

equiparation1623

analogy1645

assimilating1781

admeasurement1819

assimilation1855

c1390 (?c1350) St. Bernard l. 320 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 46 (MED) And euere he made a liknyng [L. comparationem] bytwene slep and monnes deþ.

?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 263 Lyknyng, assimilacio.

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. N.iiii^v A lykenynge of scholemasters and nurses together.

1578 T. Sampson Warning to take Heede of Fowlers Psalter 32 Lette vs heare how you can defende this your bold doing, and this your likening of the immortall God to a mortall & corruptible man.

1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A likening,..assimilation.

1650 I. Penington Light or Darknesse 18 Theirs is not knowledg neither; only comparative knowledg, not true knowledg; It is not an understanding what God is, but a likening of God to somewhat.

1769 Batchelor II. 44 They cannot speak of any thing without an ingenious comparison, or likening of one object to another.

1832 H. Martineau Ireland vi. 104 Protestant likenings of the pope and his flock to the devil and his crew.

1894 Athenæum 30 June 835/1 [There is] an unconscious likening of all things to the flowers and hills she loves so well.

1917 Bk. News Monthly (U.S.) Sept. 4/2 Miss Sidgwick has been compared with Jane Austen and with Henry James; both likenings being as unsatisfactory as such generally are.

1946 M. R. Cohen Pref. to Logic v. 87 The likening of the state to a ship..contains a potency which literal statements do not have.

2002 Country Life 19 Dec. 70/3 His likening of a girl's eyes to two poached eggs captures the off-beam humour of the piece.

b. A figure of speech; a simile, a metaphor, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile

ylikenessOE

likenessc1175

comparisona1382

similec1400

similitudec1400

resemblancec1405

analogya1536

likening1573

parabola1577

icon1589

parabole1828

1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xxxiii. f. 94^v A likening [L. icon ] is agayne annexed, as bloud.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 455 What..are y^e Similitudes of Cicero himself in his treatyse of old age, but lykenings taken from husbandrie and Vynes?

a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 712 Prophesie: Moses..likened it, to the dew falling upon the herbs, or the raine powred on the grasse (Deut. XXXII.) And that likening is so usuall, as..the word in Hebrew for raine, is so for a Preacher, too.

1754 W. Whitehead Poems Several Occasions 95 Well I ween Such likenings suit with other men. For never can my humble verse The cautious ear of patron pierce.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus (1869) iii. x. 276 O, enough, enough of likenings and similitudes.

1988 F. Garber Self, Text, & Romantic Irony viii. 232 He establishes that grandest of poetic likenings which puts the shape of organic experience into poems that end by renewing their origins.

2000 B. Michelson Literary Wit iv. 142 The psychological strategy of the poem is to make the mind word-dizzy, so thoroughly hypnotized that talk and similes and likenings and flashes of logic and poems will not matter anymore.

†3. The absorption or digestion of food or nutrients. Cf. assimilation n. 4a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > [noun]

attraction?a1425

likening?a1425

assimilation1626

insumption1676

absorption1737

intussusception1765

introsusception1816

inceptiona1849

uptake1931

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 110 (MED) When vertue digestif erreþ in sawyng or sedyng, þer is caused þe ethic; when in onyng þe Idropisy; when in likenyng [c1425 Paris assimulacioun; L. assimilando], þe lepre.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xlviii. 363 From whence it comes to pass, that instead of an astimilating or likening of nourishment, it wholly degenerates into an Excrement.

Phrases

at (also till, in) (the) likening of: in the manner of, in the same way as, like.Apparently only in Rolle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [phrase] > in the same way as

in manner ofa1375

in resemblance ofa1393

at (also till, in) (the) likening ofa1500

somewhat as1872

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvi. §11. 57 He says this til lickynynge of bestis, that waxis iolife when thai ere ful of grese.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxiii. §1. 85 The prophet, at the likynynge of a bedel..says, the lordis..is the erth.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cv. 20 (MED) And thai chaungid thaire ioy in likynynge of [L. similitudinem] a kalfe etand hay.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	likening
释义	likeningn. Brit. /ˈlʌɪkn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈlʌɪk(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlaɪkənɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English lickynynge, Middle English likenyng, Middle English liknyng, Middle English likynyng, Middle English likynynge, Middle English lyknyng, Middle English lyknynge, 1500s lykening, 1500s lykenynge, 1500s– likening. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: liken v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < liken v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare liking n.² †1. A likeness of a person or thing; a guise. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else swilkc1175 anlike1340 liking1340 likeningc1350 semblancec1374 resemblancea1393 likenessa1400 semblablec1400 similitudinary?a1425 like1440 assemblable?1530 a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 resembler1570 fellowa1616 remonstrance1640 simile1743 ditto1776 something of the sort1839 that or this sort of thing1848 assimilate1935 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 19 (MED) Þe fend hym-self him maky mey Wel dyuerse liknynges. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) iv. 7 (MED) How myght than man be in mare wrechidnes than swa to foule this ymage that it kan noght knaw til whas lyknynge it is made? 2. a. The action of comparing one person or thing to another so as to suggest that they are similar or alike; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > representing as similar comparison1340 likeningc1390 comparing1489 equiparation1623 analogy1645 assimilating1781 admeasurement1819 assimilation1855 c1390 (?c1350) St. Bernard l. 320 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 46 (MED) And euere he made a liknyng [L. comparationem] bytwene slep and monnes deþ. ?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 263 Lyknyng, assimilacio. 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. N.iiii^v A lykenynge of scholemasters and nurses together. 1578 T. Sampson Warning to take Heede of Fowlers Psalter 32 Lette vs heare how you can defende this your bold doing, and this your likening of the immortall God to a mortall & corruptible man. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A likening,..assimilation. 1650 I. Penington Light or Darknesse 18 Theirs is not knowledg neither; only comparative knowledg, not true knowledg; It is not an understanding what God is, but a likening of God to somewhat. 1769 Batchelor II. 44 They cannot speak of any thing without an ingenious comparison, or likening of one object to another. 1832 H. Martineau Ireland vi. 104 Protestant likenings of the pope and his flock to the devil and his crew. 1894 Athenæum 30 June 835/1 [There is] an unconscious likening of all things to the flowers and hills she loves so well. 1917 Bk. News Monthly (U.S.) Sept. 4/2 Miss Sidgwick has been compared with Jane Austen and with Henry James; both likenings being as unsatisfactory as such generally are. 1946 M. R. Cohen Pref. to Logic v. 87 The likening of the state to a ship..contains a potency which literal statements do not have. 2002 Country Life 19 Dec. 70/3 His likening of a girl's eyes to two poached eggs captures the off-beam humour of the piece. b. A figure of speech; a simile, a metaphor, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile ylikenessOE likenessc1175 comparisona1382 similec1400 similitudec1400 resemblancec1405 analogya1536 likening1573 parabola1577 icon1589 parabole1828 1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xxxiii. f. 94^v A likening [L. icon ] is agayne annexed, as bloud. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 455 What..are y^e Similitudes of Cicero himself in his treatyse of old age, but lykenings taken from husbandrie and Vynes? a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 712 Prophesie: Moses..likened it, to the dew falling upon the herbs, or the raine powred on the grasse (Deut. XXXII.) And that likening is so usuall, as..the word in Hebrew for raine, is so for a Preacher, too. 1754 W. Whitehead Poems Several Occasions 95 Well I ween Such likenings suit with other men. For never can my humble verse The cautious ear of patron pierce. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus (1869) iii. x. 276 O, enough, enough of likenings and similitudes. 1988 F. Garber Self, Text, & Romantic Irony viii. 232 He establishes that grandest of poetic likenings which puts the shape of organic experience into poems that end by renewing their origins. 2000 B. Michelson Literary Wit iv. 142 The psychological strategy of the poem is to make the mind word-dizzy, so thoroughly hypnotized that talk and similes and likenings and flashes of logic and poems will not matter anymore. †3. The absorption or digestion of food or nutrients. Cf. assimilation n. 4a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > [noun] attraction?a1425 likening?a1425 assimilation1626 insumption1676 absorption1737 intussusception1765 introsusception1816 inceptiona1849 uptake1931 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 110 (MED) When vertue digestif erreþ in sawyng or sedyng, þer is caused þe ethic; when in onyng þe Idropisy; when in likenyng [c1425 Paris assimulacioun; L. assimilando], þe lepre. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xlviii. 363 From whence it comes to pass, that instead of an astimilating or likening of nourishment, it wholly degenerates into an Excrement. Phrases at (also till, in) (the) likening of: in the manner of, in the same way as, like.Apparently only in Rolle. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [phrase] > in the same way as in manner ofa1375 in resemblance ofa1393 at (also till, in) (the) likening ofa1500 somewhat as1872 a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvi. §11. 57 He says this til lickynynge of bestis, that waxis iolife when thai ere ful of grese. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxiii. §1. 85 The prophet, at the likynynge of a bedel..says, the lordis..is the erth. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cv. 20 (MED) And thai chaungid thaire ioy in likynynge of [L. similitudinem] a kalfe etand hay. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1350
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