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good-liking ? Obs.
[Cf. to like one good, good a. 4 b. See also liking vbl. n.]
1. Friendly or kindly feeling towards a person.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 482 Nature..hath given hir great meanes to win the good liking and love of hir husband. 1641Hinde J. Bruen ii. 6 As the Oake and the Ivy grow up together, and with love and good likeing embrace one another. 1727Swift To Very Young Lady, Yours was a match of prudence and common good-liking. 1797–1803J. Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 194 Content himself with that mere goodliking. 1818J. C. Hobhouse Journey II. 620 This foreign interference..has not contributed to increase the good liking between the Mussulmans and the Franks at Smyrna.
2. Approval, good-will; satisfaction.
1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. i. 13 Most humblie beseeching your highnesse to haue good liking of this our bounden dutie. 1636in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 211 The full assente, consente, and goodlikinge of the Aldermen. 1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1676/1 The said Commissioners..Declared their Good-liking and Consent there⁓unto. 1740J. Clarke Educ. Youth (ed. 3) 207 They are..disposed of in the World, much more to their Credit, Ease, and Good-liking. 1808Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 125/1 Curacies are..granted..for the life or incumbency or good-liking of the rector.
†3. Personal inclination or fancy. Obs. rare.
1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxxi. (1695) 208 The Good⁓liking and Will of him, that first made this Combination.
†4. Good condition, embonpoint. Obs.
1611Bible Job xxxix. 4 Their yong ones are in good liking. 1656P. Heylin Journeys v. ii. 226 This provision together with a liberall allowance of ease, and a little of study keepeth them exceeding plump and in a good liking. |