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Webster 1913 Edition
Liking
Lik′ing
(līk′ĭng)
, p.
Adj.
Looking; appearing;
as, better or worse
. See liking
Like
, to look. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Why should he see your faces worse
liking
than the children which are of your sort? Dan. i. 10.
Lik′ing
,Noun.
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
forIf the human intellect hath once taken a
liking
to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. Bacon.
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
. Shakespeare
Their young ones are in good
liking
. Job. xxxix. 4.
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?
Hazlitt.
Webster 1828 Edition
Liking
LI'KING
,ppr.
1.
Approving; being pleased with.2.
a. Plump; full; of a good appearance. Dan. 1. Obs.LI'KING
, n.1.
A good state of body; healthful appearance; plumpness.Their young ones are in good liking - Job. 39.
2.
State of trial. [Not used.]3.
Inclination; pleasure; as, this is an amusement to your liking.4.
Delight in; pleasure in; with to.He who has no liking to the whole, ought not to censure the parts.
Definition 2024
liking
liking
See also: líking
English
Verb
liking
- present participle of like
Noun
liking (plural likings)
- A like; a predilection.
- 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
- The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice.
- John Stuart Mill
- The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion.
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