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Liking

Liking Meaning & Definition
Liking Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Liking?

[n] a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Liking:

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See Also | admiration | approval | captivation | enchantment | enthrallment | esteem | fancy | fascination | feeling | fondness | friendliness | inclination | mysophilia | partiality | penchant | predilection | preference | taste

Liking In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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