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
He describes Southampton, who was then scarcely of age, as ‘a dear lover and cherisher as well of the lovers of poets as of the poets themselves.’
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
His instinct, emotion, affectiveness—or whatever it may be called—urged him to stand forward, seize upon Elfride, and be her cherisher and protector through life.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
And as Lucy lingered in the clasp thrown round her, she seemed for the first time since the old days at the villa to be the cherished, and not the cherisher.
From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward
