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Liking   /lˈaɪkɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Liking  n.  
1.
The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for. "If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine,... it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support."
3.
Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. (Archaic) "I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking." "Their young ones are in good liking."
On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line... to be a king on liking and on sufferance?"


verb
Like  v. t.  (past & past part. liked; pres. part. liking)  
1.
To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. (Obs.) "Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there." "I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature."
2.
To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. "He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving."
3.
To liken; to compare. (Obs.) "Like me to the peasant boys of France."


Like  v. i.  
1.
To be pleased; to choose. "He may either go or stay, as he best likes."
2.
To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). (Obs.) "You like well, and bear your years very well."
3.
To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a. (Colloq.) "He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden."
To like of, to be pleased with. (Obs.)


adjective
Liking  adj.  Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. (Obs.) "Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort?"





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"Liking" Quotes from Famous Books



... sir,' said Dick. 'Gorman O'Shea has no liking for them, nor is he the man to sympathise with what he owns he cannot understand. It ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... the fight between the claimants for the Valdes and Moreno grants was not based entirely upon her liking for Dick. He learned this the fourth day of his stay in ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... of these figures in the air brought a constrained look to the faces of the women. Seemingly they confronted a subject which was not to their liking. The American, however, after a moment's pause, took it up ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... the present evening her sisters were too much occupied with their own friends to give Zell or her dangerous admirer much attention. As yet no formal engagement had bound any of them, but an intimacy and mutual liking, tending to such a result, was ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... your doing such a thing. I should never expect to hear of you again. I should always be thinking that you had got run over, or were starving in the streets, or dying in a workhouse. No, Reuben, my plan's best. It's just silliness my not liking to settle in Lewes; for of course it's better going where one is known, and I should be lost in a strange place. No; I daresay I shall find a cottage there, and I shall manage to get a living somehow—perhaps open a little shop like this, and ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty


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