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The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.

The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.

That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.

The act of perceiving likenesses or differences; an illustration or simile; the study of things to discover likenesses and differences; relative resemblance; in grammar, the inflection of adjectives and adverbs which shows a difference in degree.

The act of comparing: comparative estimate: a simile, or figure by which two things are compared: (gram.) the inflection of an adjective.

Act of comparing; comparative estimate; simile.

A comparing; an estimate of likeness or unlikeness; a simile; example; resemblance.

n. Act of comparing or considering the relations between persons or things; —proportionate estimate; degree of resemblance; —the inflection of an adjective or adverb in one or , two degrees of signification; —a simile or illustration.

The act of comparing; the state of being compared; a comparative estimate ; a simile in writing or speaking; in grammar, the formation of an adjective through its various degrees of signification, as strong, stronger, strongest.