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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



... all liking the atmosphere of his mother's room, Tom, being once in the kitchen, felt no inclination to return. His first work there, after delivering his message to Jane, was to ...
— Home Scenes, and Home Influence - A Series of Tales and Sketches • T. S. Arthur
... public is very much more interested in matter than in form, and it is for this very reason that it is behindhand in any high degree of culture. It is most laughable the way the public reveals its liking for matter in poetic works; it carefully investigates the real events or personal circumstances of the poet's life which served to give the motif of his works; nay, finally, it finds these more interesting than the works themselves; it reads more about Goethe than what has been ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... after the war led to a proposition to expel from the club all members belonging to that country; and it was only the liking and sympathy felt for one of them, Baron Schickler, a very wealthy lover of the turf and for a long time resident in France, which caused a rejection of the motion. Baron Schickler, however, has nominally retired from the turf since 1870, and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various
... had been a carpenter, he said he was a bridge-builder of Trieste, and he said, "I wish I was back at it; it is more to my liking to build things than to ...
— Three Times and Out • Nellie L. McClung
... any longer, captain, as you will be anxious to see the bales disposed of to your liking on the barge." ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr


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