Noun: loving
| Singular | loving |
| Plural | lovings |
Sample Sentences
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all natural lovings and longings [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like loving
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lovyng(e) (“love”), inherited from Old English lufung. By surface analysis, love + -ing. See: Old English Nouns '
lufung', Old English Nouns '
lufung'.