Loving

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
loving
    adj 1: feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents";
           "loving glances" [ant: {unloving}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loved} (l[u^]vd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Loving}.] [AS. lufian. [root]124. See {Love},
   n.]
   1. To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or
      good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love
      one's country; to love one's God.
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            Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
            and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
                                                  --Matt. xxii.
                                                  37.
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            Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. --Matt.
                                                  xxii. 39.
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   2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that
      of one sex for the other.
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   3. To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or
      desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like;
      as, to love books; to love adventures.
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            Wit, eloquence, and poetry.
            Arts which I loved.                   --Cowley.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Loving \Lov"ing\, a.
   1. Affectionate.
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            The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
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from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Loving, NM (village, FIPS 44420)
  Location: 32.28649 N, 104.09595 W
  Population (1990): 1243 (479 housing units)
  Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 88256
Loving, TX
  Zip code(s): 76460
    
from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Loving, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
   Population (2000):    1326
   Housing Units (2000): 516
   Land area (2000):     1.134558 sq. miles (2.938492 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.134558 sq. miles (2.938492 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            44420
   Located within:       New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
   Location:             32.285417 N, 104.096720 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     88256
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Loving, NM
    Loving
    
from U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Loving -- U.S. County in Texas
   Population (2000):    67
   Housing Units (2000): 70
   Land area (2000):     673.081375 sq. miles (1743.272685 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    3.768373 sq. miles (9.760042 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    676.849748 sq. miles (1753.032727 sq. km)
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             31.813308 N, 103.608036 W
   Headwords:
    Loving
    Loving, TX
    Loving County
    Loving County, TX
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "loving":
      Christian, Christlike, Christly, adoring, affectionate,
      all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amatory,
      amorous, ardent, attached, attentive, benevolent, benign,
      benignant, bound, boundless, brotherly, careful, caring, cautious,
      changeless, circumspect, compassionate, conjugal, considerate,
      cordial, creating, creative, curious, dear, decent, demonstrative,
      devoted, doting, enamored, erotic, eternal, eternally the same,
      everlasting, faithful, fervent, filial, fond, fraternal, glorious,
      good, gracious, hallowed, heedful, highest, holy, human, humane,
      husbandly, immortal, immutable, impassioned, infatuated, infinite,
      just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, languishing,
      limitless, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, luminous, majestic,
      making, maternal, melting, merciful, mindful, nice, numinous,
      omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, parental, passionate,
      paternal, permanent, perpetual, radiant, regardful, romantic,
      sacred, sentimental, shaping, soft, softhearted, solicitous,
      sovereign, supreme, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender,
      tenderhearted, thoughtful, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded,
      unchanging, undefined, unlimited, uxorious, warm, warmhearted,
      wifely

    

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