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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.

adjective

cherished adj. Deeply loved or valued.

Synonyms: precious, treasured, wanted.

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Etymology of 'Cherished'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cherished" Quotes from Famous Books

... days Or Bogdanovitch's sweet lays.(41) But I must now employ my Muse With the epistle of my fair; I promised!—Did I so?—Well, there! Now I am ready to refuse. I know that Parny's tender pen(42) Is no more cherished amongst men. ...

— Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] - A Romance of Russian Life in Verse • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

... better it was to grudge every penny she spent on herself as long as there were unpaid bills at the doctor's and the grocer's. All of which was, of course, perfectly reasonable, and like other women who have had a narrow experience of life, she cherished the delusion that a man's love, as well as his philosophy, is ...

— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow

... a rare and original eye and soul,—and in a peculiar way he could pour out himself. In short, to be an Essayist was the bent of his nature and genius. English literature is rich in such men,—in men whose works are cherished for the individuality they reveal. What the Song is in poetry the Essay is in prose. The producer pours out himself in his own way, and cannot be separated even in thought from that which he has produced. Jerrold's characters in plays and novels are interesting ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... tincture of scientific culture, whether physical or historical, to picture to himself the state of mind of a man of the ninth century, however cultivated, enlightened, and sincere he may have been. His deepest convictions, his most cherished hopes, were bound up with the belief in the miraculous. Life was a constant battle between saints and demons for the possession of the souls of men. The most superstitious among our modern countrymen turn to supernatural ...

— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

... and wounded—all with the bayonet. This was done in no mere vulgar spirit of bravado, still less in abominable bloody-mindedness. It was the soldierly recognition of a particularly gallant feat of arms, carried out with such conspicuously good discipline that its memory is cherished, even to the present day, by the 100th, afterwards raised again as the Royal Canadians, and now known as the Prince of Wales's Leinster regiment. A facsimile of Drummond's underlined order is one of the most highly honoured souvenirs in ...

— The War With the United States - A Chronicle of 1812 - Volume 14 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • William Wood

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