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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LI'KING, ppr. of like.
1. Approving; being pleased with.
2. a. Plump; full; of a good appearance. Daniel 1. Obs.
LI'KING, n.
1. A good state of body; healthful appearance; plumpness.
Their young ones are in good liking - Job 39.
2. State of trial. [Not used.]
3. Inclination; pleasure; as, this is an amusement to your liking.
4. Delight in; pleasure in; with to.
He who has no liking to the whole, ought not to censure the parts.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century favorable regard ; fondness, taste <had a greater liking for law — E. M. Coulter> <took a liking to the newcomer>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 what one likes; one's taste (is it to your liking?). 2 (foll. by for) regard or fondness; taste or fancy (had a liking for toffee). Etymology: OE licung (as LIKE(2), -ING(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Like Like, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liked (l[imac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Liking.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[=i]cian, gel[=i]cian, fr. gel[=i]c. See Like, a.] 1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.] Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. --R. of Gloucester. 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. --Sir P. Sidney. 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. --Sir P. Sidney. 3. To liken; to compare.[Obs.] Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Liking 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Liking 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you have a liking for something or someone, you like them. She had a liking for good clothes... Mrs Jermyn took a great liking to him. N-SING: with supp, oft N for n 2. If something is, for example, too fast for your liking, you would prefer it to be slower. If it is not fast enough for your liking, you would prefer it to be faster. She's asking far too many personal questions for my liking. PHRASE: with too/not enough, usu group PHR 3. If something is to your liking, it suits your interests, tastes, or wishes. London was more to his liking than Rome... PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Fondness, partiality, desire, wish. 2. Inclination, disposition, tendency, turn, leaning, bias, bent, propensity, proclivity, proneness, predisposition, appetency, penchant.

Moby Thesaurus

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