| 单词 | in liking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin liking P3. in liking: in a condition of being liked or favoured; in favour. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste in likingc1475 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 26 Þings were in desesse to him, þat now are in mikil leking. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 264 The greatest personages, helde Monkes, Friars, and Nonnes, in..veneration and liking. 1654 J. Reading Antidote against Anabaptism 56 The practice of infant-baptism..was in liking and use in Cyprians time. 1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 280 He..became Vicar of S. Andrews Church in the then factious town of Plymouth..where continuing in great liking among the godly party, did, for benefit and interest sake, side with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the most wicked rebellion raised by them. 1868 R. Buchanan Tragic Dramas I. 269 Things of sound Or shape, or taste, or smell, that others hold In liking, or in mere indifferency. 1907 L. R. Kelker Hist. Dauphin County III. 42e Mr. Kelker found opportunity to devote his attention to what he had ever held in liking—from childhood—early Pennsylvania history. in liking 2. in liking: likely to do something. Cf. like v.2 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adjective] > likely to be or do belike1550 probable1583 in liking1601 like1757 1601 J. Harington Let. 9 Oct. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1769) I. 47 I am in liking to get Erasmus for your entertainmente. < as lemmas |
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