ADJECTIVE (1)

1. feeling or showing love and affection;
- Example: "loving parents"
- Example: "loving glances"

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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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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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

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