Child has grand liking for such gentle treatment (3-5)
I believe the answer is:
kid-glove
'such gentle treatment' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'child has grand liking' is the wordplay.
'child' becomes 'kid' ('kid' can be a synonym of 'child').
'has' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'grand liking' becomes 'glove' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'kid'+'glove'='KID-GLOVE'
'for' acts as a link.
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