liken
verb (used with object)
to represent as similar or like; compare.
was likening
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past progressiveof liken.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Thus I dreamed it was, likening smallest things to the greatest, with God.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
