Word Finder - loving

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(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

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I love my spouse.   I love you!

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To need, thrive on.

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Mold loves moist, dark places.

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To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

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I love walking barefoot on wet grass;  I'd love to join the team;  I love what you've done with your hair

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(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

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To derive delight from a fact or situation.

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I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.

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To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

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I wish I could love her all night long.

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To praise; commend.

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To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

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The action of the verb to love.

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Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.

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his loving wife

I never leave off loving you.

He really is a gentle and loving person.

We all make errors sometimes but those who care keep right on loving us.

She almost believed Katie's words about Gabriel always loving her.

The little mustang responded smoothly under his loving guidance.

My own dear loving father!

He never stopped loving you.

All the best of me belongs to her--there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.

So long as we felt his loving presence and knew that he took a watchful interest in our work, fraught with so many difficulties, we could not be discouraged.

Your loving friend, HELEN KELLER.

Now, she was at least half the woman he'd spent lifetimes loving and hating.

Josh was different then — loving and protective.

He said, " Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace, and pursuing peace, loving mankind and bringing them nigh to the Law."

I knew I could not see; but it did not seem possible that all the eager, loving children who gathered round me and joined heartily in my frolics were also blind.

He looked up at her, but wasn't exactly rewarded with a loving glance in return.

Their mother, loving the latter most, avenged his death by murdering her son, and the people, horrified at her act, revolted and murdered both her and King Gorboduc. This legend was the subject of the earliest regular English tragedy which in 1561 was played before Queen Elizabeth in the Inner Temple hall.

It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

Each was signed, Your loving sister, Rachael Quincy.

Hey, look at me now though, all adjusted and loving the vamp stuff.

His little children clung to his knees and spoke loving words to him.

It seems to me that all people who have loving, pitying hearts, are not strangers to each other.

It wasn't one night of loving that made the difference.

I never stopped loving you either, Deidre.

I guess that doesn't show me as a sensitive and loving husband, huh?

His character is drawn in most favourable colours as a good son, a loving husband and father, and a trusty friend.

In marrying her without loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.

I cannot help loving the light, it is not my fault.

But who could help loving her?

With loving hands, dear Joshua, I did the same.

Wasn't this the man who never seemed to get perturbed about anything - who had confessed to loving her?

Care to explain why there are six unused Christmas cards, six Birthday cards..." she began counting, "…and seven Valentine cards, all 'To My Loving Wife,' or some variation thereof?

My teacher says, if children learn to be patient and gentle while they are little, that when they grow to be young ladies and gentlemen they will not forget to be kind and loving and brave.

It makes me very happy to know that I have kind and loving friends in the far-away State of Maine.

Please think of me always as your loving little sister, HELEN KELLER.

From your loving little friend, HELEN KELLER.

The last act affected us most deeply, and we all wept, wondering how the executioner could have the heart to tear the King from his loving wife's arms.

If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Its warm touch seemed so like a human caress, I really thought it was a sentient being, capable of loving and protecting me.

Frequently he would leave his dinner in the bushes, when his dog had caught a woodchuck by the way, and go back a mile and a half to dress it and leave it in the cellar of the house where he boarded, after deliberating first for half an hour whether he could not sink it in the pond safely till nightfall--loving to dwell long upon these themes.

Princess Mary had turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew's face.

She could not help loving the countess and the whole Rostov family, but neither could she help loving Nicholas and knowing that his happiness depended on that love.

It means that he is kind, noble, and splendid, and I could not help loving him.

Whatever her father's feelings might be, she begged Natasha to believe that she could not help loving her as the one chosen by her brother, for whose happiness she was ready to sacrifice everything.

Can she have left off loving Prince Andrew?

This is painful, but, loving my benefactor and sovereign, I submit.

And suddenly a new unexpected memory from that realm of pure and loving childhood presented itself to him.

Prince Andrew could no longer restrain himself and wept tender loving tears for his fellow men, for himself, and for his own and their errors.

Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.

Trust is an essential component to any healthy and loving relationship.

Do you think you may have lost that loving feeling?