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good liking en · NOUN

Etymology

From good + liking. Compare earlier well-liking.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) Approval, support or approbation for something.
    • [M]y commission is to both; and, with your highness's good-liking, in the presence of both I shall deliver it. 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section II:
  2. (archaic, uncountable) Friendliness towards other people.
    • Yours was a match of Prudence and common Good-liking. 1727, Jonathan Swift, Letter to a Very Young Lady: