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Cherish vs Adoration - What's the difference?

cherish | adoration |

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

  • To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
  • *, chapter=12
  • , title= 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 .}}
  • 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:
  • 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

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) An act of religious worship.
  • * a. 1779 ,
  • 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.
  • (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
  • * 1890,
  • ...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.
  • (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
  • * 1887,
  • He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.