Liking
Liking (līk"ing) , past participle (adjectival)
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort?
Liking , noun
1.
The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obsolete or Provincial English]
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.
Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line... to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
Collocations (1)
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. [Obsolete or Provincial English]