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lovingness

[luhv-ing] Origin

lov·ing

[luhv-ing]
adjective
feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English lovyng; replacing Middle English lovende, Old English lufiende. See love, -ing2

lov·ing·ly, adverb
lov·ing·ness, noun
non·lov·ing, adjective
un·lov·ing, adjective
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Lovingness is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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loving (ˈlʌvɪŋ)
 
adj
feeling, showing, or indicating love and affection
 
'lovingly
 
adv
 
'lovingness
 
n

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loving
O.E. lufenda (see love (v.)). Related: lovingly (late 14c.). Loving cup is attested from 1808.
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