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Word origin
From Latin analogia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλογίᾱ (analogíā), from ἀνα- (ana-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, reckoning”).
Used in a sentence
“Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.”
“Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?”
“The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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