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/tʃˈɛrɪʃ/ Listen

verb

Cherish v. t. (past & past part. cherished; pres. part. cherising)

To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. "We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children."

To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. "To cherish virtue and humanity."

Synonyms: To nourish; foster; nurse; nurture; entertain; encourage; comfort; protect; support; See Nurture.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cherish" Quotes from Famous Books

... a longer voyage. Convey my service to Asad-ed-Din, whom Allah guard and cherish, and tell him to look for me in some ...

— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... entertained the same feeling of contempt for it. Not again would I make light of it—this potent engine of destruction which had procured me the character of being a magician. I would hide it from human gaze and cherish it as a sort of fetich. So I bought a walking-stick and an umbrella, and strapped it up with them, wrapped in my plaid; and when, shortly after, an unexpected remittance from an aunt supplied me with money enough ...

— Stories By English Authors: Italy • Various

... the morning sky, leaving a trail of melody to mark his flight? Why does the beaver build his dam, and the oriole hang her nest? Why are myriads of animal forms on the earth today doing what they were countless generations ago? Why does the lover seek the maid, and the mother cherish her young? Because the voice of the past speaks to the present, and the present has no ...

— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts

... Life and Adam Bede in 1858 and 1859. Outwardly it was eminently respectable, and its respectability was its particular method of lapsing into paganism. It was afraid of ideals, and for those who cherish this fear the worship of respectability comes to be a very dangerous kind of worship, and its idol is perhaps the most ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... their own benighted and heathen country, conveying them over by the shipload to the plantations, where they may learn the beauties of the Christian religion. They are, however, men of violent temper and profane speech, who cherish no affection for their younger brother. Quintus was a lad of promise, but he found a hogshead of rumbo which was thrown up from a wreck, and he died soon afterwards. Sextus might have done well, for he became ...

— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle

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