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analogous
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analogous /anal·o·gous/ (ah-nal´ah-gus) resembling or similar in some respects, as in function or appearance, but not in origin or development.
a·nal·o·gous (-nl-gs)
adj.
Similar in function but not in structure and evolutionary origin.


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Whether we are looking at the text primarily, to observe that it favors males, named characters, powerful rulers or leaders, and ethnically Israelite insiders over women, crowds, peasants, and foreigners; or whether we make use of the many social-scientific fields of study which investigate these same factors in contiguous times and places or even in those which can function analogously by other criteria (i.
If Munford's desire for Hattie can be analogously read as his own veiled same-sex desire, then it is not farfetched to extrapolate that Procter's initiating of same-sex intimacy may also hold the seeds of a suppressed gay identity, which are sprouting in his encounter with Hattie and the 14-year old, and could possibly germinate during his impending incarceration in the state penitentiary.
Analogously, in the Bible, God creates by the word and makes humankind "in his image," the only creatures who can receive the word of his creative act.
 
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