Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Feeling love; affectionate.
  • adjective Indicative of or exhibiting love.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Praise; honor.
  • Feeling love or tender regard; affectionate: as, a loving friend.
  • Expressing or manifesting love or kindness: as, loving words; a loving caress.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Affectionate.
  • adjective Expressing love or kindness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The action of the verb to love.
  • adjective Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
  • verb Present participle of love.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective feeling or showing love and affection

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Examples

  • "Nay, do not blame him; he cannot help _not_ loving me, no more than I can help _loving_ him."

    Nature and Art Mrs. Inchbald 1787

  • I agree that I prefer people keep the lyrics when it's about loving a person - like if the song was about * loving* a man, I would prefer he sing it from the perspective of a gay man or a woman, rather than change the lyric.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • Four-year-old Ian was adopted at birth by Dan Gallagher and Peter Shearer, homosexuals who have lived together in what they describe as a loving relationship for 14 years.

    Gay Marriage Fight Sparks US Debate Over Meaning of Marriage 2011

  • And, yet, in 2008, their label loving world where they live myopically and refuse to think globally has become claustrophobic and beside the point.

    Thelma Adams: Sex and The City Jumps the Shark 2008

  • You know the disposition which young men and women naturally have to talk, jest, and sport with each other, out of which practice arise often more serious attachments, which they call loving par amours.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • CROWLEY (voice-over): An orphan, Tom Vilsack was adopted by what he calls a loving but troubled family: an alcoholic, sometimes abusive mother, a father who struggled in business.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006 2006

  • What had been supposed to be letters from our friend are proved forgeries; what we called his loving actions are the accumulated results of the natural law of heredity.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • What she embodies to us is the abstraction which you call the loving-kindness of the Father, revealed in his manifold gifts, wherever we turn our eyes.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • What she embodies to us is the abstraction which you call the loving-kindness of the Father, revealed in his manifold gifts, wherever we turn our eyes.

    Serapis — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

  • What she embodies to us is the abstraction which you call the loving-kindness of the Father, revealed in his manifold gifts, wherever we turn our eyes.

    Serapis — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

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