love

A deep caring for the existence of another.

Strong affection.

A mother’s love is not easily shaken.

My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.

Strong affection.

The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is … the highest of all the Divine commands[.]

Through nonviolent resistance we shall be able to oppose the unjust system and at the same time love the perpetrators of the system. We must work passionately and unrelentingly for full stature as citizens, but may it never be said, my friends, that to gain it we used the inferior methods of falsehood, malice, hate, and violence.

Strong affection.

I have never been in love as much as I have with you.

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

Strong affection.

My love of cricket knows no bounds.

For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?

To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!

wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.

To need, thrive on.

Mold loves moist, dark places.

To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair

"I love not that underlings should perceive my wisdom."

To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.

Iesus sayd vnto him, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde. This is the first and great Commandement. And the second is like vnto it, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

To derive delight from a fact or situation.

I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.

Zero, no score.

So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.

Nothing; no recompense.

I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.