good liking

English

Etymology

From good + liking. Compare earlier well-liking.

Noun

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.