cherish
verb (used with object)
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
cherisher
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a word derived from
cherish.
Example Sentences
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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
Is he too much a cherisher of clever conceits?
From Time Magazine Archive
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 George Colman
She was to me the "cherisher of infancy," and one must fall on these occasions into reflections which it would be commonplace to enumerate, concerning death, "of chance and change, and fate in human life."
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
He was universally beloved, hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilled in music, a very great cherisher of learned men.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
