Akin vs Liken - What's the difference?

akin | liken |

As an adjective akin

is (of persons) of the same kin; related by blood.

As a verb liken is

to compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).

akin

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.

* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:

We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.

(often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

* 1677 , , The Court of the Gentiles , T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:

Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?

* 1710 , anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator , vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:

She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.

* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:

Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.

* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:

Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.

* 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):

Something akin to a smile shone on his face.

Usage notes

* This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.

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liken

English

Verb

(en verb)

To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).

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