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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



... their performance upon the Rababa, or guitar of the desert, and who knew all the new Bedouin poetry by heart. I here met a man from Aintab, near Aleppo, who hearing me talk of his native town, took a great liking to me, ...
— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt
... far as to sit down at my window again on my second morning, and to write the first half-line of the chapter and strike it out, not liking it, when my conscience reproached me with not having surveyed the watering-place out of the season, after all, yesterday, but with having gone straight out of it at the rate of four miles and a half an hour. Obviously the best amends that I could make for this ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens
... quarters above the shop the woman was removed to the hospital suffering from the effects of a hard drinking bout, and died there. The girl disappeared, and the boy would have been turned out on the streets but for Crewe, who had taken a liking to him. Joe was self-reliant, alert, and precocious, like most London street boys, but in addition to these qualities he had a vein of imagination unusual in a lad of his upbringing and environment. He devoured the exciting feuilleton stories in the evening papers he vended, and spent his ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... sympathies or the patriotism of the singer. The character of Ulysses is much stronger in the Odyssey; and even when the same qualities are attributed to him—his soft-flowing tongue, his cunning, and his eloquence—they are held in very different estimation. The Homer of the Iliad has little liking for a talker. Thersites is his pattern specimen of such; and it is the current scoff at unready warriors to praise their father's courage, and then ...
— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude
... don't see how any one could help liking Sandy! He is the best man on the place. He knows so much, and is so full of fun, father! And he is so kind to his dogs and to the sheep! Why, I believe he loves every sheep on ...
— The Story of Wool • Sara Ware Bassett


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