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likenessed

likenessed is the simple past and past participle of likeness.

Meaning of likeness

Verb

likeness (third-person singular simple present likenesses, present participle likenessing, simple past and past participle likenessed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To depict.
    • I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987)...

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Questions about likenessed

What is likenessed the simple past and past participle of?
Likenessed is the simple past and past participle of likeness.

Words near likenessed in the dictionary

  1. liken
  2. likenable
  3. likened
  4. likenedst
  5. likeness
  6. likenessed
  7. likenesses
  8. likenessing
  9. likenest
  10. likeneth
  11. likening

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