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Liking

Liking (liking)
p. a.(l***imacr]k"***ibreve]ng)
Lik"ing
  1. 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.

Liking

Liking (liking)
n.
Lik"ing
  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.













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