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Definition of Likings
1. liking [n] - See also: liking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Likings
Literary usage of Likings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper (1898)
"The latter willingly complied; and after Paul and the Doctor had disposed of
themselves to their several likings, the new-comer entered into a narrative of ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... that Christ will not suffer us to be our own, or at our own choice (who
certainly should chuse the woods and deserts of our likings, before dwelling in ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"For these likings, as well as for the extreme beauty and great learning which
tradition has attached to her, she may be compared with Queen Mary of Scotland ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"the easiest of lives, gratifying his own special likings, which were pure and
generous. This is the sort of man you would expect to conquer time, ..."
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