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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



... for his relations — his humanity to his slaves — and his bravery in the Indian war, had made him the darling of the country. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at, that I should have taken such a liking to Marion, but why he should have conceived such a partiality for me, that's the question. But it is no business of mine to solve it. However, very certain it is, that on the first moment of our acquaintance, there was something in his ...
— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems
... There swung the scarlet and black butterflies which have flown into Fairyland, and there the corn-crake built her nest in the grass. It was a famous corner for bird's-nesting, which with us took no crueller form than liking to part the thick leaves to peep at the pretty, perturbed mother-thrush on her clutch. Sometimes we peeped too often, and she flew away and left the eggs cold. We saw the world from that corner, for ...
— An Isle in the Water • Katharine Tynan
... swimmingly now. You will understand perhaps that what so particularly pleased me in the new volume, what seems to me to have so personal and original a note, are the middle-aged pieces in the beginning. The whole of them, I may say, though I must own an especial liking to - ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... of jewels. Three rabbits farther on appeared to be chatting together. Perhaps the best group of all was old Fukurokujin, with white beard and bald head. He was conversing with two of the graceful waterfowl so constantly seen in Japanese decorations. He is the god of luck, and has a reputation for liking good cheer. This is suggested by a gourd, a usual form of wine-bottle, that is suspended to his cane, whilst another gourd contains homilies. He was said to be so tender-hearted that even timid wild fowl were not ...
— Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories • Mrs. M. Chaplin Ayrton
... obliquely down the hill to cut him off. After going a few hundred feet, he reached a laurel thicket, some thirty yards broad, and two or three times as long, which he did not leave. I ran up to the edge and there halted, not liking to venture into the mass of twisted, close-growing stems and glossy foliage. Moreover, as I halted, I heard him utter a peculiar, savage kind of whine from the heart of the brush. Accordingly, I began to skirt the edge, standing on tiptoe ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter


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