Cherish
['tʃerɪʃ] or ['tʃɛrɪʃ]
Definition
(v. t.) To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
(v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Nurture, foster, nourish, nurse, sustain, support, comfort, care for, treat tenderly.[2]. Harbor, entertain, indulge, encourage, hold dear, embrace heartily.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value,encourage
ANT:Stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check
Typist: Wilhelmina
Definition
v.t. to protect and treat with affection: to nurture nurse: to entertain in the mind.—n. Cher′ishment.
Editor: Lois
Examples
- Prove yourself true ere I cherish you, was his ordinance; and how difficult he made that proof! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Will I not guard, and cherish, and solace her? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We no longer look on this dearest part of ourselves, as a tender plant which we must cherish, or a plaything for an idle hour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mine to support, to protect, to cherish, to restore. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I must have THAT to cherish, and to comfort me, if I have nothing else! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Those are better off who, being destitute of advantage, cannot cherish delusion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To cherish, to caress, to amuse him was the common task of all. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was one of mamma's cherished hopes that I should become united to a tall member of society. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My long-cherished judgment was confirmed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Thus tranquillized and cherished she at last slumbered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She still cherished a very tender affection for Bingley. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And be careful how you look on Rowena, whom he cherishes with the most jealous care; an he take the least alarm in that quarter we are but lost men. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is an altogether pleasant and unpretentious town, which cherishes with no small amount of pride its association with the name of Thomas Alva Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then neither of us cherishes any regrets, which is as it should be. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mrs. Dashwood seemed actually working for her, herself; cherishing all her hopes, and promoting all her views! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She appeared to suspect a plan of consolation on my part, from which she, cherishing her new-born grief, revolted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Is this your cherishing--to put me into a hut like this, and keep me like the wife of a hind? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He felt an awful, enjoyable power over her, an instinctive cherishing very near to cruelty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Marty