Word info

like unto

Preposition

Meaning

(archaic, chiefly biblical, in adjective or adverb phrases that express resemblance) like, similar to

(obsolete, in adjectival prepositional phrases expressing conformity or conformableness) conforming to, conformable to

(obsolete, in adverbial prepositional phrases following verbs or participles of making, conforming, or thinking) like

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Examples

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Ieyasu Tokugawa

The Day of Resurrection is a day on which the sun riseth and setteth like unto any other day. How oft hath the Day of Resurrection dawned, and the people of the land where it occurred did not learn of the event. Had they heard, they would not have believed, and thus they were not told! Báb

Ye have lost a child - nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere. Samuel Rutherford

The chairs and tables around us which broadcast to us incessantly those signals which affect our sight and touch cannot in their nature be like unto the signals or to the sensations which the signals awake at the end of their journey. Arthur Eddington

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him. Solomon

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud. Ferdowsi

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