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Definition
drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
- The analogy was well meant, but did not altogether please him.Chapter 9 (56% in)
- "It's to show me," he thought, "what would happen to ME—" and a deathly sense of the superiority of implication and analogy over direct action, and of silence over rash words, closed in on him like the doors of the family vault.Chapter 33 (55% in)
There are no more uses of "analogy" in The Age of Innocence.
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