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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See {On liking},
below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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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.
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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.
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3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
condition. [Archaic]
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I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
--Shak.
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Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix.
4.
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{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.]
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Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
. . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
--Hazlitt.
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