equating

English

Verb

equating

1. present participle of equate

Noun

equating (plural equatings)

1. The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent.
   • 2015, Philip R. Hardie, The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

     But, overall, Donne's poetry represents an epistemic break with the love clichés so overused by an earlier era; and the poet was often moved to use Platonic equatings of love, beauty, and goodness to breathe new life into old Petrarchisms.