equating

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of equate

noun

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