Word info

like of

Verb

Meaning

like of (third-person singular simple present likes of, present participle liking of, simple past and past participle liked of)

(obsolete) To be pleased with.


Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles. Martin Luther

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen. G. K. Chesterton

This is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls. Walt Whitman

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns. Sarah Dessen

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before! Charles Dickens

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