good liking

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English

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Etymology

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From good + liking. Compare earlier well-liking.

Noun

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good liking (uncountable)

  1. (now rare) Approval, support or approbation for something. [from 16th c.]
    • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section II:
      [M]y commission is to both; and, with your highness's good-liking, in the presence of both I shall deliver it.
  2. (now rare) Friendliness towards other people. [from 16th c.]
    • 1727, Jonathan Swift, Letter to a Very Young Lady:
      Yours was a match of Prudence and common Good-liking.