cherish
verb (used with object)
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
uncherished
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a word derived from
cherish.
Example Sentences
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I recalled lost relatives, uncherished in their time and therefore a source of belated, worthless grief, and first loves, unrequited and now sweetly recollected.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
For fifteen years, over what is, in fact, two generations in tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant and yet oddly uncherished national treasure.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2014
Have pity on thy child, who will be left In infancy, uncherished, and the ward Of unkind guardians; lay to heart the woes Which loss of thee would bring on him and me.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith
That it should endure years, suffer discouragement, bridge distances and surmount obstacles, all uncherished and unrequited, was fiction, pure and simple.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
And, further, she genuinely did cause him to feel that throughout his career he had always missed the very best things of life, through being an uncherished, ingenuous, easily satisfied man.
From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett
