loving

IPA: ɫˈʌvɪŋ

The action of the verb to love.
A surname.
A placename
A village in New Mexico, United States
An unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States
An unincorporated community in Young County, Texas, United States
Ellipsis of Loving County. [One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Mentone. It is the least populous county in Texas.]
(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Loving v. Virginia. A 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized interacial marriage under the Equal Protection and Due Process; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.

Examples of "loving" in Sentences

"Nay, do not blame him; he cannot help _not_ loving me, no more than I can help _loving_ him."
And, yet, in 2008, their label loving world where they live myopically and refuse to think globally has become claustrophobic and beside the point.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.