loving

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lov=ing
• COUNT in NET: 8 in 9 verses (in OT : 5 in 6 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

loving, a. 

•  Affectionate.  [1913 Webster]

  "The fairest and most loving wife in Greece."  [1913 Webster]
•  Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

loving, adj. & n.
--adj. feeling or showing love; affectionate.
--n. affection; active love.

Idiom

loving-cup a two-handled drinking-cup passed round at banquets. loving-kindness tenderness and consideration.

Derivative

lovingly adv. lovingness n.

Etymology

OE lufiende (as LOVE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

loving

Love

N love, fondness, liking, inclination, regard, dilection, admiration, fancy, affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, heart, brotherly love, benevolence, attachment, yearning, eros, tender passion, amour, gyneolatry, gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry, Cupid, Venus, myrtle, true lover's knot, love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story, the, old story, plighted love, courtship, amourette, free love, maternal love, storge, parental love, young love, puppy love, attractiveness, popularity, favorite, lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau, sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove, leman, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive, cicisbeo, caro sposo, inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa, betrothed, affianced, fiancee, flirt, coquette, amorette, pair of turtledoves, abode of love, agapemone, loving, fond of, taken with, struck with, smitten, bitten, attached to, wedded to, enamored, charmed, in love, love-sick, over head and ears in love, head over heels in love, affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving, amorous, amatory, fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly, loved, beloved well beloved, dearly beloved, dear, precious, darling, pet, little, favorite, popular, congenial, after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart, in one's good graces, dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart, lovable, adorable, lovely, sweet, attractive, seductive, winning, charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching, amiable, like an angel, amantes amentes, credula res amor est, militat omnis amasius, love conquers all, omnia vincit amor, si vis amari ama, the sweetest joy, the wildest woe, love, fondness, liking, inclination, regard, dilection, admiration, fancy, affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, heart, brotherly love, benevolence, attachment, yearning, eros, tender passion, amour, gyneolatry, gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry, Cupid, Venus, myrtle, true lover's knot, love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story, the, old story, plighted love, courtship, amourette, free love, maternal love, storge, parental love, young love, puppy love, attractiveness, popularity, favorite, lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau, sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove, leman, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive, cicisbeo, caro sposo, inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa, betrothed, affianced, fiancee, flirt, coquette, amorette, pair of turtledoves, abode of love, agapemone, loving, fond of, taken with, struck with, smitten, bitten, attached to, wedded to, enamored, charmed, in love, love-sick, over head and ears in love, head over heels in love, affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving, amorous, amatory, fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly, loved, beloved well beloved, dearly beloved, dear, precious, darling, pet, little, favorite, popular, congenial, after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart, in one's good graces, dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart, lovable, adorable, lovely, sweet, attractive, seductive, winning, charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching, amiable, like an angel, amantes amentes, credula res amor est, militat omnis amasius, love conquers all, omnia vincit amor, si vis amari ama, the sweetest joy, the wildest woe.