Crossword clues for loving
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loving \Lov"ing\, a.
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Affectionate.
The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.
--Tennyson. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
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.]
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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.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
--Matt. xxii. 37.Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.
--Matt. xxii. 39. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
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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.
Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved.
--Cowley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English lufenda (see love (v.)). Loving cup is attested from 1808. Lovingkindness was Coverdale's word.
Wiktionary
Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate. n. The action of the verb ''to love''. v
(present participle of love English)
WordNet
adj. feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances" [ant: unloving]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 516
Land area (2000): 1.134558 sq. miles (2.938492 sq. km)
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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
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, TX
Loving County
Loving County, TX
Wikipedia
Loving may refer to:
- Love, a range of human emotions
- Loving (surname)
- Loving v. Virginia, a 1967 landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case
Loving is an American television soap opera that ran on ABC from June 26, 1983, to November 10, 1995, a total of 3,169 episodes. The serial, set in the fictional town of Corinth, Pennsylvania, was co-created by Agnes Nixon and former actor Douglas Marland.
The show was broadcast in France under the title Amoureusement Votre (Lovingly Yours), in Croatia as Ljubav, in Germany as Loving - Wege der Liebe, and in Italy as Quando si ama (When someone loves). Loving premiered on June 26, 1983 as a two-hour primetime movie and on the next day became a half-hour weekday soap opera.
On July 4, 1995, ABC officially canceled Loving due to low ratings, and its final episode aired on November 10, 1995. On November 13, 1995, the following Monday, ABC replaced Loving with its spin-off The City, which ran until March 27, 1997.
Loving is a 1945 novel by British writer Henry Green. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. One of his most admired works, Loving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another's provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love.
In a 1958 interview in The Paris Review, Terry Southern asked Green about his inspiration for Loving. Green replied, "I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: 'Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with cunty fingers.' I saw the book in a flash."
Loving is a 1970 American comedy film released by Columbia Pictures and directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on the novel Brooks Wilson Ltd. written by pulp magazine illustrator John McDermott under his pen name, J. M. Ryan. The movie starred George Segal in the title role of a philandering NYC illustrator and Eva Marie Saint as his wife. The cast also included Sterling Hayden, David Doyle, Keenan Wynn, Roy Scheider and future 20th Century Fox president Sherry Lansing, among others.
Loving is a 2016 British-American historical drama film directed and written by Jeff Nichols. It stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga as Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film is to be released in the U.S. on November 4, 2016 by Focus Features.
Loving is a surname of English and Swiss German origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alvin D. Loving (1935–2005), African-American painter
- Candy Loving (born 1956), American model
- Cynthia Loving or Lil' Mo (born 1975), American R&B singer and radio personality
- Dwight J. Loving, American soldier on death row
- Frank Loving (1860–1882), American Old West gambler and gunman
- George G. Loving, Jr. (born 1923), American retired Air Force lieutenant general
- James C. Loving (1836-1902), American cattleman and rancher in Texas.
- Mildred and Richard Loving, the plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia
- Oliver Loving (1812–1867), American cattle rancher and pioneer
- Susan B. Loving, American lawyer, Oklahoma's first female attorney general
- Walter Loving (1872--1945), American soldier and musician, leader of the Philippine Constabulary Band
- Warren Loving (born 1960), American football player
Usage examples of "loving".
Beauty is abidingly self-enfolded but its lovers, the Many, loving it as an entire, possess it as an entire when they attain, for it was an entire that they loved.
With this fellowship they came safely and with little pain unto Chestnut Vale, where they abode but one night, though to Ralph and Ursula the place was sweet for the memory of their loving sojourn there.
Corenice, ever ageless, ever young, ever loving, are we to part once more?
From birth, Amaryllis had been surrounded by a host of loving relatives.
Amity Little for ransom from her loving father, and then accidentally discovered that Amity Little and Amos Klein were the same?
If a feeling of modesty does not deter you from shewing yourself tender, loving, and full of amorous ardour with me in his presence, how could I be ashamed, when, on the contrary, I ought to feel proud of myself?
With these words I drew her towards me, and finding her as gentle as a lamb and as loving as a dove, the amorous sacrifice was offered with abundant libations on both sides.
I have been dutifull, and you so loving and kinde as to save me from the jaws of death, help me now to protect my honour, convey me hence, let me not live here to please his appetite, but cast me to some unknown place, where like an Anchoret I may live from all the World, and never more to see the face of Man, for in that name all horrour strikes my Senses, and makes my Soul like to some furious thing, so affrighted it hath been.
Maeve had always told her how Niall, her da, was strong and protective and loving, and she could imagine that this Mac Ard might be the same way.
But usually those of us who die die in the ashram, with all of the cluster around them, and it is a time for great loving and celebration.
Toward midnight when Miss Azimuth was finished, the Cult of Loving Kindness broke its camp.
The trout-line he had set out baited with cheese would probably catch a few cheese loving catfish.
I not only abandoned an easy victory, but I even begged her pardon, which I soon read in the most loving look.
The loving father begged me to excuse him, with tears in his eyes, telling me to place myself in his position.
At this hour while yet the heart burns with the anguish of sorrow, and the gloom of bereavement still hangs low, my thoughts turn in loving remembrance to my sincere beloved sisters and brothers in the Cause.