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  • noun Plural form of loving.

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Examples

  • And people get “annoyed” at it just like kitties do, but they secretly love all of the attention and lovings.

    Video: Cat Yodeling - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I mean besides the obvious answers for anyone who has lived through the last 50 years or so of our Good Government's little people lovings, benovolence. by

    And They Have 60; Landrieu and Lincoln End First Phase of Senate Drama 2009

  • That said, even angry atheists must set aside their necessary and time-consuming exertions at contemptuous mockery for teh lovings.

    47 Ways to Kiss | Mind on Fire 2008

  • Then King Arthur and all the kings and knights kneeled down and gave thankings and lovings unto God and to His Blessed Mother.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • She was sore, her body aching from the two previous lovings and the aftereffects of their wreck.

    Gabriel Hawk's Lady Barton, Beverly 1998

  • And she thought too of how she had visualized Geraint during the second and third lovings because she had no mental picture of Rebecca.

    Truly Balogh, Mary 1996

  • It was hard not to revel in the feeling of relaxed well-being that the night's two lovings had brought to his body.

    Beyond the Sunrise Balogh, Mary 1992

  • There was something innocent and childlike in all his sympathies and likings and lovings.

    Coleridge's Conversation Poems 1960

  • But above all, it supposes a soul which, even in the pride and summer-tide of life -- even in the lustihood of health and strength, had felt oftenest and prized highest that which age cannot take away and which, in all our lovings, is the Love; ----

    The Improvisatore 1927

  • She knew how strongly the child was influenced by her likings and lovings, and feared that this might be the case of Scamp over again, with the important difference that Hetty was now a girl in her twelfth year, and that her new favourite might prove to be a human being instead of a dog.

    Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn Rosa Mulholland 1881

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