Liking — Defs

01 p. a. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.

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Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.[Obs.] See: Like
“Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort?” — Dan. i. 10.

02 n. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

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.

“Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?” — Hazlitt.

Phrases & compounds

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.