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Is he too much a cherisher of clever conceits?

From Time Magazine Archive

Claiborne is a cherisher of food, a distinguished feeder who is himself a renowned cook, and since 1957 he has conferred distinction on the New York Times as its food editor.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dere louer and cherisher you are, as well of the louers of Poets, as of Poets themselues.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

Why court consuming sorrow to my bosom, Which, like the nurs'ling pelican, drinks the blood Of its fond cherisher?

From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George

The letter bha implies both the cherisher and supporter; the letter ga the leader, mover and creator.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George