Cherish vs Adoration - What's the difference?
cherish | adoration |
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
*, chapter=12
, title= To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
(obsolete) To cheer, gladden.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
(countable) An act of religious worship.
* a. 1779 ,
(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
* 1890,
(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
* 1887,
As a verb cherish
is to treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.As a noun adoration is
an act of religious worship.cherish
English
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished .}}
- Her merry fit she freshly gan to reare, / And did of ioy and iollitie deuize, / Her selfe to cherish , and her guest to cheare [...].
adoration
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Noun
(en noun)- We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration , and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.
- ...if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration', worthy of the ' adoration of the world.
- He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.