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Definitions for: Liking
[n] a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"
Webster (1913) Definition: Lik"ing (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See 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, 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.
--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.
--Shak.
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.
Antonyms: dislike
See Also: admiration, approval, captivation, enchantment, enthrallment, esteem, fancy, fascination, feeling, fondness, friendliness, inclination, mysophilia, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, taste
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