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Cherish   /tʃˈɛrɪʃ/   Listen
verb
Cherish  v. t.  (past & past part. cherished; pres. part. cherising)  
1.
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."
2.
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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... REPUBLIC, was organized July 25, 1883. Its object is specially to aid and assist the Grand Army of the Republic and to perpetuate the memory of its heroic dead; to assist such Union veterans as need help and protection, and to extend needful aid to their widows and orphans; to cherish and emulate the deeds of army nurses and of all loyal women who rendered loving service to the country in her hour of peril; to maintain true allegiance to the United States of America; to inculcate lessons of patriotism and love of country among children and in the communities; to encourage ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... thorough mastery of the rule proposed, with its limits, the next condition is an accurate self-knowledge. Know yourself, your weaknesses, your aptitudes, your exposures, your gifts and strength, in order that you may know what to seek or avoid, what to cherish or spurn, what to spur or curb, what to fortify or assail. For example, if your head is made of butter, it is clear that it will not do for you to be a baker. If you are a coward, you must not volunteer to lead a forlorn hope. The ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various

... dared supply, Seen only by the intellectual eye. 45 Those scenic helps, denied to Shakspeare's page, Our Author owes to a more liberal age. Nor pomp nor circumstance are wanting here; 'Tis for himself alone that he must fear. Yet shall remembrance cherish the just pride, 50 That (be the laurel granted or denied) He first essay'd in this distinguished fane, Severer muses and ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... me, nothing vexes me so much as contempt; and to punish her's by one as great, I am resolved to cherish ...
— The Love-Tiff • Moliere

... have behaved well in another. How much greater is this a reason for making sacrifices than a consulship or the government of a province? These things come to you from yourself and from the gods. Remember this, who gives these things and to whom, and for what purpose. If you cherish yourself in these thoughts, do you still think that it makes any difference where you shall be happy, where you shall please God? Are not the gods equally distant from all places? Do they not see from all places alike that which is ...
— A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus With the Encheiridion • Epictetus


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