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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Feeling love; affectionate.
  2. adj. Indicative of or exhibiting love.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Feeling love or tender regard; affectionate: as, a loving friend.
  2. Expressing or manifesting love or kindness: as, loving words; a loving caress.
  3. n. Praise; honor.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The action of the verb to love.
  2. adj. Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
  3. v. present participle of love.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Affectionate.
  2. adj. Expressing love or kindness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. feeling or showing love and affection

Examples

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

    Nature and Art

  • “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

  • “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.”

    Voice of America: Gay Marriage Fight Sparks US Debate Over Meaning of Marriage

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “Ruined their own son by what they called loving him”

    Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752

  • “That I even have to draw together in a written breath the words sexual-child-nurse and sordid-two-men-two-women-loving is ugly and wrong because it just perpetuates the ugliness, it just gives it air to breathe, it just acknowledges that it is there and that fills me with anger, so much anger, and so the cycle of ugliness grinds on.”

    Humanity I Love You | Her Bad Mother

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