cherish
verb (used with object)
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
cherishable
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a word derived from
cherish.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Berry’s fictional world is flawed, hard and deeply cherishable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Instead, religious practice could be seen as valuable and even cherishable, once it is understood to be a natural human quest for meaning.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Could that cherishable farce “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” possibly be more daft and befuddling than Shakespeare made it, with romances spawned, crossed and erased in the blink of an enchanted eye?
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2014
The reader has a cherishable sense of a woman warming to her audience.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011
One of the most cherishable effusions is that "On Wealth," in which the venerable writer drops into a charmingly confidential and reminiscent vein.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
