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likenessing

likenessing is the present participle and gerund 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 likenessing

What is likenessing the present participle and gerund of?
Likenessing is the present participle and gerund of likeness.

Words near likenessing in the dictionary

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

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