Careful Words

loving (adj.)

The bravest are the tenderest,—

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor (1825-1878): The Song of the Camp.

Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven

Visit her face too roughly.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.