Cherishing
[tʃeriʃɪŋ]
Examples
- 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 .
Edited by Clare